UCS B & C Series oper_state Definitions

[John Dorman]

Howdy folks (by the way, there is no good 'label' for this question),

I've got a Python script going out to many sites around the world to query both 'ComputeRackUnit' and 'ComputeBlade' class IDs.  This is across everything from M2s (almost gone!) through to M6s.

Part of the data I get returned is the 'oper_state'.

I'm having trouble getting the definitions for the states that are returned, especially servers that are not powered on.

Below are the states that I am trying to get definitions for (I know some seem obvious, but I wouldn't want to assume).  Bonus points for a link to the documentation.

• COMPUTE-FAILED
• DEGRADED
• DISCOVERY
• DISCOVERY-FAILED
• INACCESSIBLE
• INOPERABLE
• POWER-OFF
• REMOVED
• UNASSOCIATED

Thanks!

[John Dorman · Accepted solution]

Just to close the loop on this, I logged into the FIs and reviewed the servers with each of the statuses and combined that with the little documentation I found to put together status definitions that work for my organization.

Here they are in case they help anyone else:

**'seen on' is an incomplete list, it only represents instances of the status seen in our environment**

State	Seen on	Slot Status	Admin State	Availability	Discovery State	Association State	Typical Cause
COMPUTE-FAILED	M5	Equipped	In Service	Unavailable	Failed	Unassociated	Setup of Vmedia failed
DEGRADED	M2, M4, M5	Equipped	In Service	Unavailable	Complete	Associated	System Board failures (DIMM/CPU/power/etc)
DISCOVERY	M4, M5	Equipped	In Service	Unavailable	Retry	Unassociated	System Board failures (DIMM/CPU/power/etc) that prevent discovery after start/restart
DISCOVERY-FAILED	M5	Equipped	In Service	Unavailable	Failed	Unassociated	System Board failures (DIMM/CPU/power/etc) that prevent discovery after start/restart
INACCESSIBLE	M2, M3, M4	Equipped	In Service	Unavailable	Complete	Associated	After the server has been successfully shut down, but still "In Service" & "Equipped"
INOPERABLE	M4, M5	Equipped	In Service	Unavailable	Retry	Unassociated	System Board failures (DIMM/CPU/power/etc)
POWER-OFF	M2, M4, M5	Equipped	In Service	Unavailable	Complete	Associated	After the server has been successfully shut down, but still "In Service" & "Equipped"
REMOVED	M5	Missing	n/a	Unavailable	n/a	n/a	The server has been physically removed but has not been decommissioned in UCSM
UNASSOCIATED	M4, M5	Equipped	In Service	Available	Complete	Unassociated	The server is physically installed, but not associated with a profile and therefore not in use.