The real DESCRIPTION field here is just the auto-generated stub "Cisco UCS fabric:FcoeSanEp:operStateReason managed object property", so it carries no real prose -- but the property name and its SnmpAdminString type tell you what it holds: It holds a short text reason code explaining why this FCoE SAN uplink port's operState is what it currently is. When operState on this FCoE SAN uplink port is anything other than a clean "up", this field is where UCS Manager writes the specific cause -- for example that the SFP is absent, the peer never came up, or the link was administratively shut down -- so an admin does not have to guess at troubleshooting time. A typical value might be "link-down" or "sfp-not-present", telling the admin exactly what to go check on this particular FCoE SAN uplink port rather than a bare failure flag.