Conditions and States

State: the operational status of either a receptacle (slot) or an occupant (board).

Condition: the operational status of an attachment point.

The cfgadm program can display 10 types of states and conditions. See Table 2-1.

For a receptacle procedure to be valid, the receptacle must transition in sequence through all three states (empty, disconnected, connected) or in the reverse sequence (connected, disconnected, empty).