# information is too outdated.
poll_stale_after = 600
+# If Node Manager boots a cloud node, and it does not pair with an Arvados
+# node before this long, assume that there was a cloud bootstrap failure and
+# shut it down. Note that normal shutdown windows apply (see the Cloud
+# section), so this should be shorter than the first shutdown window value.
+boot_fail_after = 1800
+
# "Node stale time" affects two related behaviors.
# 1. If a compute node has been running for at least this long, but it
# isn't paired with an Arvados node, do not shut it down, but leave it alone.