Googled around and just missed right hit. ################# [root@thor iso]# hosted-engine --vm-status --== Host thor.penguinpages.local (id: 1) status ==-- Host ID : 1 Host timestamp : 109144 Score : 3400 Engine status : {"vm": "up", "health": "good", "detail": "Up"} Hostname : thor.penguinpages.local Local maintenance : False stopped : False crc32 : 87e5facd conf_on_shared_storage : True local_conf_timestamp : 109144 Status up-to-date : True Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=109144 (Thu Sep 24 14:37:09 2020) host-id=1 score=3400 vm_conf_refresh_time=109144 (Thu Sep 24 14:37:09 2020) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=False state=EngineUp stopped=False [root@thor iso]# hosted-engine --vm-shutdown [root@thor iso]# hosted-engine --vm-status --== Host thor.penguinpages.local (id: 1) status ==-- Host ID : 1 Host timestamp : 109464 Score : 0 Engine status : {"vm": "down_unexpected", "health": "bad", "detail": "Down", "reason": "bad vm status"} Hostname : thor.penguinpages.local Local maintenance : False stopped : False crc32 : 22ff75b4 conf_on_shared_storage : True local_conf_timestamp : 109464 Status up-to-date : True Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=109464 (Thu Sep 24 14:42:29 2020) host-id=1 score=0 vm_conf_refresh_time=109464 (Thu Sep 24 14:42:29 2020) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=False state=EngineUnexpectedlyDown stopped=False timeout=Fri Jan 2 01:29:44 1970 [root@thor iso]# hosted-engine --vm-start VM exists and is Down, cleaning up and restarting VM in WaitForLaunch [root@thor iso]# ############################### Sorry for noise. Restart allowed host to join back under management.