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4.6. Status of Managed Systems

The status of one or more managed systems can be displayed with the “ms status” command. If no managed system is given as an argument, the status of all managed systems is shown:

$ ms status
NAME  STATE      DETAILS  IPADDR          SECONDARY       KEYLOCK      SERVICE_LPAR_ID
ms01  Operating  None     10.0.0.245      -               norm         none
ms03  Operating  None     10.0.0.244      -               norm         none
ms04  Operating  None     10.0.0.241      -               norm         none
ms05  Operating  None     10.0.0.242      -               norm         none
ms06  Operating  None     10.0.0.240      10.0.0.239      norm         none
ms07  Operating  None     10.0.0.234      -               norm         none
ms08  Operating  None     10.0.0.252      -               norm         none
$

The current status of the managed system is displayed in the STATE column, here, all managed systems are currently Operating. The IP addresses of the service processors and other information are also displayed.