Hi Adrian,
Your FST is trying to connect to the MGM rather than the MQ daemon which runs on port 1097 and not on 1094. I think this is quite slow and painful to go through all the small steps that you need for configuring an instance. I suggest you checkout the following project and use it to spawn a dummy instance based on a Docker image. Inside you can find the scripts that configure everything you need. This is not customized for the Alice use case but I think it is already a better start than what you have now. Just follow these steps and you will have a fully configured EOS instance in docker containers on your machine:
git clone https://gitlab.cern.ch/eos/eos-docker.git
cd eos-docker
sudo ./scripts/start_services.sh -q -i gitlab-registry.cern.ch/dss/eos:4.7.8
To destroy the setup just use the shutdown_services.sh script.
Cheers,
Elvin