diff --git a/rgmanager/src/resources/utils/member_util.sh b/rgmanager/src/resources/utils/member_util.sh
index 02fba7737..51b1bcece 100644
--- a/rgmanager/src/resources/utils/member_util.sh
+++ b/rgmanager/src/resources/utils/member_util.sh
@@ -1,102 +1,116 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Sistina Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 # Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Red Hat, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 #
 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 # GNU General Public License for more details.
 #
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 #
 
 #
 # Use corosync-quorumtool to figure out if the specified node is a member
 # of the cluster.  Returns 1 if not a member, and
 # 0 if the node is happily running.
 #
 # Tested on RHEL6 and F17  Note that the old version of this function utilized
 # clustat, which had introspection in to the configuration.
 # If a node was not found, the old version would return '2', but the only
 # consumer of this function never cared about that value.
 #
 is_node_member_clustat()
 {
+	local node="$1"
+	local output_list
+
 	# Still having a tag while (a) online but (b) not running pacemaker 
 	# (e.g. crm_node) or rgmanager not considered adequate for things like
 	# the LVM agent - so we use corosync-quorumtool instead.  The function
 	# name really should be changed.
 	#
 	# corosync 1.4.1 output looks like:
 	#
 	#  # corosync-quorumtool  -l
 	#  Nodeid     Name
 	#     1   rhel6-1
 	#     2   rhel6-2
 	#
 	# corosync 2.0.1 output looks like:
 	#  # corosync-quorumtool -l
 	#
 	#  Membership information
 	#  ----------------------
 	#      Nodeid      Votes Name
 	#           1          1 rhel7-1.priv.redhat.com
 	#           2          1 rhel7-2.priv.redhat.com
 	#
-	corosync-quorumtool -l | grep -v "^Nodeid" | grep -i " $1\$" &> /dev/null
-	return $?
+
+	output_list=$(corosync-quorumtool -l | grep -v "^Nodeid")
+
+	# first try searching for the node in the output as both a FQDN or shortname
+	echo "$output_list" | grep -i -e " $node\$" -e " $node\..*\$" &> /dev/null && return 0
+
+	# if the node was not found in the quorum list, try any known aliases found in /etc/hosts
+	for alias in $(cat /etc/hosts | grep -e "\s$node\s" -e "\s$node\$" | tail -n 1 | sed 's/\t/ /g' | cut -f2- -d " ");
+	do
+		echo "$output_list" | grep -i -e " $alias\$" &> /dev/null && return 0
+	done
+
+	return 1
 }
 
 
 #
 # Print the local node name to stdout
 # Returns 0 if could be found, 1 if not
 # Tested on RHEL6 (cman) and Fedora 17 (corosync/pacemaker)
 #
 local_node_name()
 {
 	local node nid localid
 
 	if which magma_tool &> /dev/null; then
 		# Use magma_tool, if available.
 		line=$(magma_tool localname | grep "^Local")
 
 		if [ -n "$line" ]; then
 			echo ${line/* = /}
 			return 0
 		fi
 	fi
 
 	if which cman_tool &> /dev/null; then
 		# Use cman_tool
 
 		line=$(cman_tool status | grep -i "Node name: $1")
 		[ -n "$line" ] || return 1
 		echo ${line/*name: /}
 		return 0
 	fi
 
 	if ! which crm_node &> /dev/null; then
 		# no crm_node? :(
 		return 2
 	fi
 
 	localid=$(crm_node -i)
 	while read nid node; do
 		if [ "$nid" = "$localid" ]; then
 			echo $node
 			return 0
 		fi
 	done < <(crm_node -l)
 
 	return 1
 }