diff --git a/modules/cells/src/main/java/dmg/cells/nucleus/CellGlue.java b/modules/cells/src/main/java/dmg/cells/nucleus/CellGlue.java
index f3dc51eff57..f04a3d752ca 100644
--- a/modules/cells/src/main/java/dmg/cells/nucleus/CellGlue.java
+++ b/modules/cells/src/main/java/dmg/cells/nucleus/CellGlue.java
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ThreadFactoryBuilder;
 import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFramework;
-import org.apache.curator.framework.state.ConnectionState;
-import org.apache.zookeeper.WatchedEvent;
-import org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -40,7 +37,6 @@ class CellGlue
 {
     private static final Logger LOGGER =
             LoggerFactory.getLogger(CellGlue.class);
-    private static final Logger EVENT_LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger("org.dcache.zookeeper");
 
     private final String _cellDomainName;
     private final ConcurrentMap<String, CellNucleus> _cellList = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
@@ -79,7 +75,7 @@ class CellGlue
                     System.currentTimeMillis();
         }
         _cellDomainName = cellDomainNameLocal;
-        _curatorFramework = withMonitoring(curatorFramework);
+        _curatorFramework = curatorFramework;
         _domainAddress = new CellAddressCore("*", _cellDomainName);
         _masterThreadGroup = new ThreadGroup("Master-Thread-Group");
         _killerThreadGroup = new ThreadGroup("Killer-Thread-Group");
@@ -99,24 +95,6 @@ class CellGlue
         _emergencyKillerExecutor = MoreExecutors.listeningDecorator(emergencyKillerExecutor);
     }
 
-    private static CuratorFramework withMonitoring(CuratorFramework curator)
-    {
-        curator.getConnectionStateListenable().addListener((c,s) ->
-                    EVENT_LOGGER.info("[CURATOR: {}] connection state now {}",
-                            c.getState(), s));
-
-        curator.getCuratorListenable().addListener((c,e) ->
-                    EVENT_LOGGER.info("[CURATOR: {}] event: type={}, name={}, "
-                            + "path={}, rc={}, children={}",
-                            c.getState(), e.getType(), e.getName(), e.getPath(),
-                            e.getResultCode(), e.getChildren()));
-
-        curator.getUnhandledErrorListenable().addListener((m,e) ->
-                    EVENT_LOGGER.warn("[CURATOR: {}] unhandled error \"{}\": {}",
-                            curator.getState(), m, e.getMessage()));
-        return curator;
-    }
-
     static Thread newThread(ThreadGroup threadGroup, Runnable r)
     {
         Thread thread = new Thread(threadGroup, r);
diff --git a/modules/dcache/src/main/java/org/dcache/boot/Domain.java b/modules/dcache/src/main/java/org/dcache/boot/Domain.java
index 76124baf0d7..5c9b7bcab5e 100644
--- a/modules/dcache/src/main/java/org/dcache/boot/Domain.java
+++ b/modules/dcache/src/main/java/org/dcache/boot/Domain.java
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ public class Domain
     private static final Logger _log =
         LoggerFactory.getLogger(SystemCell.class);
 
+    private static final Logger EVENT_LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger("org.dcache.zookeeper");
+
     private final ConfigurationProperties _properties;
     private final List<ConfigurationProperties> _services;
     private final ResourceLoader _resourceLoader = new FileSystemResourceLoader();
@@ -159,9 +161,24 @@ protected CuratorFramework createCuratorFramework()
         int sessionTimeoutMs =
                 getTime(PROPERTY_ZOOKEPER_SESSION_TIMEOUT, PROPERTY_ZOOKEPER_SESSION_TIMEOUT_UNIT);
         RetryPolicy retryPolicy = new ExponentialBackoffRetry(baseSleepTimeMs, maxRetries);
-        return CuratorFrameworkFactory.newClient(zookeeperConnectionString,
+        CuratorFramework curator = CuratorFrameworkFactory.newClient(zookeeperConnectionString,
                                                  sessionTimeoutMs, connectionTimeoutMs,
                                                  retryPolicy);
+
+        curator.getConnectionStateListenable().addListener((c,s) ->
+                EVENT_LOGGER.info("[CURATOR: {}] connection state now {}",
+                        c.getState(), s));
+
+        curator.getCuratorListenable().addListener((c,e) ->
+                EVENT_LOGGER.info("[CURATOR: {}] event: type={}, name={}, "
+                                + "path={}, rc={}, children={}",
+                        c.getState(), e.getType(), e.getName(), e.getPath(),
+                        e.getResultCode(), e.getChildren()));
+
+        curator.getUnhandledErrorListenable().addListener((m,e) ->
+                EVENT_LOGGER.warn("[CURATOR: {}] unhandled error \"{}\": {}",
+                        curator.getState(), m, e.getMessage()));
+        return curator;
     }
 
     private int getTime(String baseProperty, String unitProperty)