Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method, an active management node and a standby management node configured to detect and recover from a network partition the method including determining whether the active management node sees the standby management node on less than all of the plurality of token rings, then restarting the standby management node, determining whether a first active management node with a lower node index sees a second active management node with a higher node index on one or more than one of the plurality of token rings, then restarting the second active management node with a higher node index and determining whether the second active management node with a higher node index sees the second active management node with a lower node index on one or more than one of the plurality of token rings, then restarting the active management node with a higher node index.