This field (Gauge32) counts how many times the current FSM step tracked by the fabric interconnect's internal endpoint manager, the per-switch process that drives port and port-channel configuration through its state machine has been retried. A rapidly climbing retry count on this endpoint manager is a strong signal that a configuration step is failing repeatedly rather than progressing, which an admin uses to decide whether to intervene manually instead of waiting for automatic retries to succeed. A value of '0' means the current step hasn't needed a retry; a value of '5' would flag repeated failed attempts on this specific step.