How to run the test locally: git clone git: //git.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/jbossqe/eap-tests-hornetq.git cd eap-tests-hornetq/scripts/ git checkout refactoring_modules groovy -DEAP_VERSION=7.0.0.ER6 PrepareServers7.groovy export WORKSPACE=$PWD export JBOSS_HOME_1=$WORKSPACE/server1/jboss-eap export JBOSS_HOME_2=$WORKSPACE/server2/jboss-eap export JBOSS_HOME_3=$WORKSPACE/server3/jboss-eap export JBOSS_HOME_4=$WORKSPACE/server4/jboss-eap cd ../jboss-hornetq-testsuite/ mvn clean test -Dtest=RemoteJcaTestCase#testLoadBalancingOfOutboundConnectionsToClusterWithFail -DfailIfNoTests= false -Deap=7x | tee log When SFSB is called then there is also exception: 11:02:29,996 ejb-client-cluster-node-connection-creation-3-thread-1 INFO [org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionClusterNodeManager:85] Could not create a connection for cluster node ClusterNode{clusterName= 'ejb' , nodeName= 'dhcp-10-40-5-102' , clientMappings=[ClientMapping{sourceNetworkAddress=/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0, sourceNetworkMaskBits=0, destinationAddress= '127.0.0.1' , destinationPort=9080}], resolvedDestination=[Destination address=127.0.0.1, destination port=9080]} in cluster ejb javax.security.sasl.SaslException: Authentication failed: all available authentication mechanisms failed: at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.ClientConnectionOpenListener.allMechanismsFailed(ClientConnectionOpenListener.java:114) at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.ClientConnectionOpenListener$Capabilities.handleEvent(ClientConnectionOpenListener.java:449) at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.ClientConnectionOpenListener$Capabilities.handleEvent(ClientConnectionOpenListener.java:241) at org.xnio.ChannelListeners.invokeChannelListener(ChannelListeners.java:92) at org.xnio.channels.TranslatingSuspendableChannel.handleReadable(TranslatingSuspendableChannel.java:199) at org.xnio.channels.TranslatingSuspendableChannel$1.handleEvent(TranslatingSuspendableChannel.java:113) at org.xnio.ChannelListeners.invokeChannelListener(ChannelListeners.java:92) at org.xnio.ChannelListeners$DelegatingChannelListener.handleEvent(ChannelListeners.java:1092) at org.xnio.ChannelListeners.invokeChannelListener(ChannelListeners.java:92) at org.xnio.conduits.ReadReadyHandler$ChannelListenerHandler.readReady(ReadReadyHandler.java:66) at org.xnio.nio.NioSocketConduit.handleReady(NioSocketConduit.java:88) at org.xnio.nio.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:559) at ...asynchronous invocation...(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl.doConnect(EndpointImpl.java:294) at org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl.connect(EndpointImpl.java:416) at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.NetworkUtil.connect(NetworkUtil.java:153) at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.NetworkUtil.connect(NetworkUtil.java:133) at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConnectionPool.getConnection(ConnectionPool.java:78) at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionManager.getConnection(RemotingConnectionManager.java:51) at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionClusterNodeManager.getEJBReceiver(RemotingConnectionClusterNodeManager.java:79) at org.jboss.ejb.client.ClusterContext$EJBReceiverAssociationTask.call(ClusterContext.java:469) at org.jboss.ejb.client.ClusterContext$EJBReceiverAssociationTask.call(ClusterContext.java:443) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang. Thread .run( Thread .java:745) but it seems not to affect functionality.