This is to fix any stale NOT_RESPONDING flags given in the nodestate in Slurm and resetting the nodes to power down. Considered the instance is non-existant in this scenarios this shouldn't harbor any side effects for already running VMs which may correctly carry a NOT_RESPONDING flag for other reasons.

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