The desired administrative status of the switch. A management station may place the switch in a desired state by setting this object accordingly. The states are as follow: o online(1) means set the switch to be accessible by an external Fibre Channel port; o offline(2) means set the switch to be inaccessible; o testing(3) means set the switch to run the built-in test; o faulty(4) means set the switch to a 'soft' faulty condition; o reboot(5) means set the switch to reboot in 1 second. o fastboot(6) means set the switch to fastboot in 1 second. Fastboot would cause the switch to boot but skip over the POST. When the switch is in faulty state, only two states can be set: faulty and reboot/fastboot.