Using the unsafeAssassinateEndpoint function with old IPs from JMX should do the trick.
This was already discussed in this mailing list, search using "unsafeAssassinateEndpoint" as keyword to know all that you need to know about it. Hope you'll be ok after that. Alain 2013/3/21 Ben Chobot <be...@instructure.com> > I've got a 1.1.5 cluster, and a few weeks ago I removed some nodes from > it. (I was trying to upgrade nodes from AWS' large to xlarge, and for some > reason that made sense at the time, it seemed better to double my nodes and > then decommission the smaller ones, rather than to simply rebuild the > existing nodes serially.) > > Now the remaining nodes are all frequently logging that the old, > decommissioned nodes are dead and that their old token is being removed.... > which is great, I guess, but why does my cluster know about them at all? > Doing a nodetool removetoken doesn't work, as the dead nodes don't display > in the ring. Is this expected behavior after a nodetool decommission? Is > maybe something cached that I can safely uncache?
