Re-commissioned nodes fail to authenticate against the cluster

[storageguy]

This node is already initialized but could not be found in the cluster map

Hi, I am trying to add a node into the existing PX Essential cluster. But the API pod always failed in initialization and the log of the cluster pod showed that Mar 03 14:16:06 portworx[21315]: time=“2021-03-03T14:16:06Z” level=error msg=“This node is already initialized but could not be found in the cluster map.” Mar 03 14:16:06 portworx[21315]: time=“2021-03-03T14:16:06Z” level=error msg=“Failed to initialize node in cluster. This node is already initialized but could not be found in the …

This post may help, it contains steps to clean a node’s configuration.