This text field reports the current overall status (such as in-progress, completed, or failed) of the FSM workflow running against the physical-port object that tracks a fabric-interconnect port's configuration mode and the progress of its own discovery workflow. An administrator's first check when a port or its related object is misbehaving is fsmStatus on the corresponding Phys instance, since it immediately shows whether UCS Manager considers the object's setup workflow finished successfully. For example, an fsmStatus reporting a failure on this Phys instance tells the operator to look at the accompanying error and description fields rather than assume the object is simply still initializing.