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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+r"""
+State Manager module:
+
+   - Defines Valid states of the system
+
+"""
+from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn
+
+BuiltIn().import_resource("state_manager.robot")
+
+# We will build eventually the mapping for warm, cold reset as well.
+VALID_STATES = {
+    'reboot':
+    {
+         # (BMC state, Chassis State, Host State)
+         ('Ready','Off','Off'),
+         ('Ready','On','Running'),
+    },
+}
+
+
+class state_map():
+
+    def get_system_state(self):
+        r"""
+        Return the system state as a tuple of bmc, chassis and host states.
+        """
+        bmc_state = BuiltIn().run_keyword('Get BMC State')
+        chassis_state = BuiltIn().run_keyword('Get Chassis Power State')
+        host_state = BuiltIn().run_keyword('Get Host State')
+        return (bmc_state, chassis_state, host_state)
+
+    def valid_boot_state(self, boot_type, state_set):
+        r"""
+        Validate a given set of states is valid.
+
+        Description of arguments:
+        boot_type   Reset type (reboot/warm/cold)
+        state_set   State set (bmc,chassis,host)
+        """
+        if state_set in set(VALID_STATES[boot_type]):
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False