I was actually able to bypass this issue by deleting the sql dir for data and engine(well
tarballing incase it was a bad move) and restoring and then setting up engine.
Finally after few days of hard work its up, now my issue is hosts not responding although
they are up.
This is the error one of the nodes is reporting:
Get Host Capabilities failed: PKIX path building failed:
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid
certification path to requested target