engine 4.5.2.4 The issue is that in my cluster when I use the: [root@ovirt-node3 ~]# hosted-engine --vm-status --== Host ovirt-node3.ovirt (id: 1) status ==-- Host ID : 1 Host timestamp : 1633143 Score : 3400 Engine status : {"vm": "down", "health": "bad", "detail": "unknown", "reason": "vm not running on this host"} Hostname : ovirt-node3.ovirt Local maintenance : False stopped : False crc32 : 1cbfcd19 conf_on_shared_storage : True local_conf_timestamp : 1633143 Status up-to-date : True Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=1633143 (Wed Aug 31 14:37:53 2022) host-id=1 score=3400 vm_conf_refresh_time=1633143 (Wed Aug 31 14:37:53 2022) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=False state=EngineDown stopped=False --== Host ovirt-node1.ovirt (id: 2) status ==-- Host ID : 2 Host timestamp : 373629 Score : 0 Engine status : unknown stale-data Hostname : ovirt-node1.ovirt Local maintenance : True stopped : False crc32 : 12a6eb81 conf_on_shared_storage : True local_conf_timestamp : 373630 Status up-to-date : False Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=373629 (Tue Jun 14 16:48:50 2022) host-id=2 score=0 vm_conf_refresh_time=373630 (Tue Jun 14 16:48:50 2022) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=True state=LocalMaintenance stopped=False --== Host ovirt-node2.ovirt (id: 3) status ==-- Host ID : 3 Host timestamp : 434247 Score : 3400 Engine status : {"vm": "down", "health": "bad", "detail": "unknown", "reason": "vm not running on this host"} Hostname : ovirt-node2.ovirt Local maintenance : False stopped : False crc32 : badb3751 conf_on_shared_storage : True local_conf_timestamp : 434247 Status up-to-date : True Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=434247 (Wed Aug 31 14:37:45 2022) host-id=3 score=3400 vm_conf_refresh_time=434247 (Wed Aug 31 14:37:45 2022) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=False state=EngineDown stopped=False --== Host ovirt-node4.ovirt (id: 4) status ==-- Host ID : 4 Host timestamp : 1646655 Score : 3400 Engine status : {"vm": "up", "health": "good", "detail": "Up"} Hostname : ovirt-node4.ovirt Local maintenance : False stopped : False crc32 : 1a16027e conf_on_shared_storage : True local_conf_timestamp : 1646655 Status up-to-date : True Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=1646655 (Wed Aug 31 14:37:43 2022) host-id=4 score=3400 vm_conf_refresh_time=1646655 (Wed Aug 31 14:37:43 2022) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=False state=EngineUp stopped=False The problem is that ovirt-node1.ovirt is not anymore in ther cluster, in the host list presented by the ui there is correctly no ovirt-node1, the ovirt-node1 appears only in the commandline. I did a full text search in the engine DB, but node1 doesn't appear anywhere, even in the filesystem, a grep doesn't find anything