Deleting that state directory should not be a normal maintenance function. What you initially described is a very odd case. The fact that your node went down 003 and if it was the primary node or the coordinator node, internally there would have been a election to nominate a new cluster member node to perform those functions.   In your case node 003 is a member of the cluster but it is not connected. Why it is not connected could be the cause of n reasons typically node is down or it was manually disconnected. When you see that message how many member nodes do you have? I expect the UI to show 2/3 because node 3 is not connected. The solution is to connect it by fixing the issue of why node is down or connect it through the UI     ... View more