Making sure the synchronous actions occur when your start your instance-cluster.

Answer: By default, running the command, asadmin start-node-agent NODE-AGENT-NAME will not actually register synchronization for all entries/parameters/configuration for the cluster configuration in GlassFish V2 update 1 or Application Server 9.1 when starting up the cluster... To make sure synchronization kicks in when starting the cluster use the following two commands;

./asadmin start-node-agent --startinstances=false NODE-AGENT-NAME
./asadmin start-cluster CLUSTER-NAME