FIPS card - How to tell if it has been initialised

I have some FIPS boxes and here's what I've found from testing. If you run 'fipsutil info' from bash shell, there can be two results:

Uninitialized FIPS card will present an error like this:

fipsutil error (line 1159): Library Initialization : 0x05 : Undefined Error Code

Initialized FIPS card will display something like this:

Label:             F5FIPS
HSM Serial Number: xxxxxxx
Hardware ID:       0x0
Firmware Version:  4.7.1
Total FLASH:       14286412
Free FLASH:        14239436
Total SRAM:        16984736
Free SRAM:         16979488

As Kevin states though, keys don't have to be stored in the HSM even though it's initialized. You can create keys without putting them in the HSM. You can also move them to the HSM at a later point if you so choose.