Here is an example nodetool status output:
Datacenter: DC1 =============== Status=Up/Down |/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving/Stopped -- Address Load Tokens Owns (effective) Host ID Rack DS 10.0.1.23 92.73 KiB 8 33.5% 065f8099-e0d6-4bf6-a92b-efe6689d1f8d r1
What's the difference between DS (Down/Stopped) and DN (Down/Normal)?
In situations where the disk is not accessible or has encountered a hardware failure, the default failure policy for Cassandra is to go into a stopped state:
disk_failure_policy: stop
In this state, gossip (port 7000) and client connections (port 9042) are stopped but the node can still be inspected via JMX (port 7199). This means that other nodes will not be able to gossip with the stopped node and it won't be reachable by the application.
In newer versions of DSE (5.1.18, 6.0.12, 6.7.8, 6.8.0), a new state "Stopped" has been added to make it more obvious to operators that a node is in stopped state (improvement ID DB-2493). Note that DSE will need to be shutdown completely before it can be restarted again.
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