This is a text description of what one stage record of the vCenter endpoint's connect/register FSM actually does. Because the FSM that FSM stage belongs to runs through several named stages in sequence, this text is what tells an admin, in plain language, what this particular stage was supposed to accomplish rather than the workflow as a whole. A value such as 'Retrieve certificate from remote server' would describe exactly what this one stage attempted, distinct from the stage before or after it.