I've been pushing a few patches back to FreePBX - a couple of major ones like "Update the newinstall.SQL" to the current one, and I also added the ability to do a scripted install so that it doesn't need to ask you any questions. There were quite a few bugs in the installer - no wonder people had had problems running FreePBX as a non-asterisk user for so long.
A new feature is a "Cluster Status" window on the dashboard. That will be pushed back into FreePBX, but for the moment it's just sitting in the HiPBX repository.
Anyway, they're now fixed. It's time for me to start doing some documentation of all the things that can go wrong with a cluster, and how to fix them. And there are lots of things that can go wrong, especially when you start fiddling with things.