This is possible, but unless you are running the development zwave binding, you will need to use another software to heal the network (rebuild routes). The development binding is the only 2.x version that can currently do a heal. Best to do the inclusion through OH with the controller and device at their normal locations. This could be a reason for the issues you are having. Here’s some info from Chris, but in 2014 he was talking about the 1.x binding.
This can be avoided with a UDEV rule. There are lots of topics on this too.