PXE systems can be in one of three states:
| State |
Description |
| undeployed |
not currently within a PXE domain. |
| deployed and inactive |
within a PXE domain but not handling message exchanges or external interactions. |
| deployed and active |
within a PXE domain, handling message exchanges and external interactions. |
These states are interrelated as follows:
Changes in the state of a system are atomic and transacted by the domain.
