In the following call GET /v2/{tenant-id}/servers/{server-id} the HTTP response returns four statuses { server: { status: "ACTIVE" , OS-EXT-STS.power_state: 1, OS-EXT-STS:task_state: null, OS-EXT-STS:vm_state: "active", } } Three of the above power_state, task_state and vm_state are documented here ( https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/VMState ). Even though this is more slanted towards implementation rather than an API usage developer, it does help to some extent in understanding what these statuses are. But what is status ? So far I have noticed it is the same as vm_state except in upper case. Thanks, Sekhar -- Sekhar Vajjhala | m : 603-785-8993 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20140507/3f13904b/attachment.html>