Creation of cluster fails with: "Authentication to the ricci agent at node1:11111 failed"

Issue

• Issue with creating a Red Hat High Availability Clustering between two nodes. The following errors occurred on conga GUI while creating a cluster:

"test_cluster": Authentication to the ricci agent at node1:11111 failed, Authentication to the ricci agent at node2:11111 failed

• We are unable to add a node to the cluster or create a cluster with Conga. We see an error in the logs:

Mar  6 04:01:26 node1 ricci: ricci user password is not set, clients will be unable to connect
Mar  6 04:01:26 node1 ricci: startup succeeded
Mar  6 04:01:41 node1 saslauthd[30342]: do_auth         : auth failure: [user=ricci] [service=ricci] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar  6 04:03:56 node1 saslauthd[30343]: do_auth         : auth failure: [user=ricci] [service=ricci] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar  6 04:06:16 node1 saslauthd[30342]: do_auth         : auth failure: [user=ricci] [service=ricci] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]