Investigating the logs shed the light on the FMS configuration being in an HA setup:
04-09 09:02:56.664 INFO [main] com.quest.nitro.startup.FoglightServer - Forge Server allows both HTTP and HTTPS access.
2014-04-09 09:02:56.664 INFO [main] com.quest.nitro.startup.FoglightServer - Forge Server starts in high availability mode under partition name: FMS_PARTITION_NAME
2014-04-09 09:03:22.461 INFO [main] com.quest.nitro.service.ServiceMBeanUtil - HA Membership Service Started.
- There is only one node in the HA setup