States

The general state of your Cloud Pak for Data System is determined by the state of two components: platform manager and the system application.

System states

The following table describes all states of the system.

Table 1. System states description

State	Description
Activating	The startup procedure has begun.
Active	Platform Manager is activated, system is being monitored, and policies are active. Cloud Pak for Data is stopped.
Deactivating	Deactivating process has begun.
Inactive	Platform Manager is started but no monitoring takes place, the policy engine is not running.
Starting	The system virtual machines are starting.
Ready	System is ready for handling user requests.
Down	Cloud Pak for Data is down and cannot be recovered automatically.
Recovering	Cloud Pak for Data recovering is in progress.
Degraded	The cluster is not accessible from a node. Platform management is deactivated.
Started_Unknown	System VMs are started but Cloud Pak for Data state cannot be reported.
Started_Down	The platform is monitored and at least one VM is started but Cloud Pak for Data HA component is stopped.

The following table presents how the overall system state is determined by the state of the platform manager and the state of the Cloud Pak for Data application.

Table 2. System states based on components

Platform Manager state	Application state	System state
Stopped		Stopped
Inactive		Inactive
Activating		Activating
Deactivating		Deactivating
Degraded		Degraded
Active	Stopped	Active
Active	Waiting_For_Nodes	Starting
Active	Starting	Starting
Active	VMs_Started	Starting
Active	Started	Started
Active	Down	Down
Active	Ready	Ready
Active	Failed	Down
Active	Recovering	Recovering
Active	Stopping	Stopping
Active	Started_Unknown	Started_Unknown
Active	Started_Down	Started_Down

The following table lists all possible Cloud Pak for Data application states.

Table 3. Application states description

Application State	Description
Waiting_For_Nodes	Waiting for enough healthy nodes to start the application.
Starting	Starting application VMs.
VMs_Started	Application VMs started and waiting for Cloud Pak for Data to start.
Down	Unable to start application VMs.
Failed	Cloud Pak for Data cannot start.
Recovering	Cloud Pak for Data recovery is in progress.