On an ObservedFsmStage object -- one individual stage/step inside that Observed-object FSM task -- cucsObserveObservedFsmStageRetry is a Gauge32 counter/value representing how many times UCS Manager has retried this FSM stage after it failed to complete. An admin monitors this number because it quantifies the internal progress or configuration of that specific ObservedFsmStage instance's operation, which is otherwise invisible outside UCS Manager's own FSM engine. For example, a rising or stalled value on cucsObserveObservedFsmStageRetry tells the admin whether the ObservedFsmStage instance's task is actively making progress or has stopped moving forward.