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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-8791:
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Honestly, parsing nodetool output is a bad idea in general. We make no
guarantees we won't make cosmetic changes to that, even in a minor. Instead
you need to use JMX programmatically yourself because that won't change.
> 'nodetool status' reports nodes in undocumented '?' state
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> Key: CASSANDRA-8791
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8791
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Stuart Bishop
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.1.4
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> 'nodetool status' self documents the node status with the statement
> 'Status=Up/Down' which corresponds to the 'U' and 'D' statuses in the first
> column of the node listing.
> There is also a very important '?' status that is not documented, which seems
> to appear when a node is bootstrapping.
> Automation and deployment tools need to cope with nodes in this transition
> state, and the first step is to inform them about it in the documentation.
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