Need better way to distinguish intended host state from current state

I was debugging some cases earlier today where some sleds appear to have been rebooting. I appear to have caught a case where the sled was briefly in A2. I got this via pilot sp status, which is using faux-mgs to understand the current power state. However, the thing that I didn't know was that this was probably in the process of rebooting due to a host boot / panic loop. We need some way to better distinguish what is the current power state from what is happening or transient. In general when I see us in A2, I assume we have come to rest in A2 not that we're in the process of making a transition. Perhaps there's some additional set of APIs or way we can expose this. I'm not sure what makes the most sense or how we want to denote intent versus reality.