Node Health Check with Self-Remediation services keep restarting nodes when doing ETCD replacement creating many issues
Issue
Having Node Health Check operator with NHC CR created leads to cluster being unstable or degraded when following the official documentation to replace failed ETCD node, due to force reboots on all nodes by the self-remediation service.
Pausing the NHC CR or deleting doesn't seem to help either and the BMC on the nodes log:
Wed Nov 20 2024 08:42:38 : The watchdog timer reset the system.
Environment
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14+ IPI Bare Metal
Workload Availability for Red Hat OpenShift 23.x and 24.x
NOTE: Most affected are 3 node clusters with our without additional nodes, but not exclusively.
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