HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 384)

Monitoring Hardware Components
Guardian User’s Guide — 425266-001
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Determining Device States
The data shown in the report means:
Table 19-2 lists and explains the possible object states that can be reported by the SCF
STATUS command.
subsystem The reporting subsystem name
object-type The object, or device, type
object-name and
Name
The fully qualified name of the object
State One of the valid object states: ABORTING, DEFINED,
DIAGNOSING, SERVICING, STARTED, STARTING, STOPPED,
STOPPING, SUSPENDED, SUSPENDING and UNKNOWN.
PPID The primary CPU number and process identification number (PIN) of the
device
BPID The backup CPU number and process identification number (PIN) of the
device
attr The name of the object attribute
val The value of the attribute for that object name
Table 19-2. SCF Object States (page 1 of 2)
State Substate Explanation
ABORTING The object is being aborted. The object is responding
to an ABORT command or some type of malfunction.
In this state, no new links are allowed and drastic
measures may be underway to reach the STOPPED
state. This state is irrevocable.
DEFINED One of the generally defined possible conditions of an
object with respect to the management of that object.
DIAGNOSING The object is in a subsystem-defined test mode
entered via the DIAGNOSE command.
INITIALIZED The system has created the process, but it is not yet in
one of the operational states.
SERVICING SPECIAL The object is being serviced or used by a privileged
process and is inaccessible to user processes.
TEST The object is reserved for exclusive testing.
STARTED (none) The object is logically accessible to user processes.
STARTING The object is being initialized and is in transition to
the STARTED state.
STOPPED CONFIG-
ERROR The object is configured improperly.
DOWN The object is no longer logically accessible to user
processes.