NonStop Operations Guide for H-Series and J-Series RVUs

where:
The reporting subsystem namesubsystem
The object, or device, typeobject-type
The fully qualified name of the objectobject-name
One of the valid object states: ABORTING, DEFINED,
DIAGNOSING, INITIALIZED, SERVICING, STARTED,
State
STARTING, STOPPED, STOPPING, SUSPENDED,
SUSPENDING, and UNKNOWN
The primary processor number and process identification
number (PIN) of the object
PPID
The backup processor number and PIN of the objectBPID
The name of an attribute of the objectattrn
The value of that object attributevaln
SCF Object States
Table 9 lists and explains the possible object states that the SCF STATUS command can report.
Table 9 SCF Object States
ExplanationSubstateState
The object is being aborted. The object
is responding to an ABORT command
ABORTING
or some type of malfunction. In this
state, no new links are allowed, and
drastic measures might be underway to
reach the STOPPED state. This state is
irrevocable.
One of the generally defined possible
conditions of an object with respect to
the management of that object.
DEFINED
The object is in a subsystem-defined test
mode entered through the DIAGNOSE
command.
DIAGNOSING
The system has created the process, but
it is not yet in one of the operational
states.
INITIALIZED
The object is being serviced or used by
a privileged process and is inaccessible
to user processes.
SPECIALSERVICING
The object is reserved for exclusive
testing.
TEST
The object is logically accessible to user
processes.
STARTED
The object is being initialized and is in
transition to the STARTED state.
STARTING
The object is configured improperly.CONFIG-ERRORSTOPPED
The object is no longer logically
accessible to user processes.
DOWN
The object is in the hard-down state or
is physically inaccessible due to a
hardware error.
HARDDOWN
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