diff --git a/dev-tools/omdb/src/bin/omdb/nexus.rs b/dev-tools/omdb/src/bin/omdb/nexus.rs
index d45865b4a7..5af75fac8f 100644
--- a/dev-tools/omdb/src/bin/omdb/nexus.rs
+++ b/dev-tools/omdb/src/bin/omdb/nexus.rs
@@ -1556,6 +1556,62 @@ fn print_task_details(bgtask: &BackgroundTask, details: &serde_json::Value) {
                 }
             }
         }
+    } else if name == "blueprint_loader" {
+        #[derive(Deserialize)]
+        struct BlueprintLoaderStatus {
+            target_id: Uuid,
+            time_created: DateTime<Utc>,
+            status: String,
+            enabled: bool,
+        }
+
+        match serde_json::from_value::<BlueprintLoaderStatus>(details.clone()) {
+            Err(error) => eprintln!(
+                "warning: failed to interpret task details: {:?}: {:?}",
+                error, details
+            ),
+            Ok(status) => {
+                println!("    target blueprint: {}", status.target_id);
+                println!(
+                    "    execution:        {}",
+                    if status.enabled { "enabled" } else { "disabled" }
+                );
+                println!(
+                    "    created at:       {}",
+                    humantime::format_rfc3339_millis(
+                        status.time_created.into()
+                    )
+                );
+                println!("    status:           {}", status.status);
+            }
+        }
+    } else if name == "blueprint_executor" {
+        #[derive(Deserialize)]
+        struct BlueprintExecutorStatus {
+            target_id: Uuid,
+            enabled: bool,
+            errors: Option<Vec<String>>,
+        }
+
+        match serde_json::from_value::<BlueprintExecutorStatus>(details.clone())
+        {
+            Err(error) => eprintln!(
+                "warning: failed to interpret task details: {:?}: {:?}",
+                error, details
+            ),
+            Ok(status) => {
+                println!("    target blueprint: {}", status.target_id);
+                println!(
+                    "    execution:        {}",
+                    if status.enabled { "enabled" } else { "disabled" }
+                );
+                let errors = status.errors.as_deref().unwrap_or(&[]);
+                println!("    errors:           {}", errors.len());
+                for (i, e) in errors.iter().enumerate() {
+                    println!("        error {}: {}", i, e);
+                }
+            }
+        }
     } else {
         println!(
             "warning: unknown background task: {:?} \
diff --git a/nexus/reconfigurator/execution/src/dns.rs b/nexus/reconfigurator/execution/src/dns.rs
index 9531843259..9ab84e15ff 100644
--- a/nexus/reconfigurator/execution/src/dns.rs
+++ b/nexus/reconfigurator/execution/src/dns.rs
@@ -1665,7 +1665,11 @@ mod test {
 
         // If we execute it again, we should see no more changes.
         _ = realize_blueprint_and_expect(
-            &opctx, datastore, resolver, &blueprint, &overrides,
+            &opctx,
+            datastore,
+            resolver,
+            &blueprint2,
+            &overrides,
         )
         .await;
         verify_dns_unchanged(
diff --git a/nexus/src/app/background/tasks/blueprint_execution.rs b/nexus/src/app/background/tasks/blueprint_execution.rs
index dbbfcb3b14..2b1e3eedca 100644
--- a/nexus/src/app/background/tasks/blueprint_execution.rs
+++ b/nexus/src/app/background/tasks/blueprint_execution.rs
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ impl BlueprintExecutor {
                       "target_id" => %blueprint.id);
             return json!({
                 "target_id": blueprint.id.to_string(),
-                "error": "blueprint disabled"
+                "enabled": false,
             });
         }
 
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ impl BlueprintExecutor {
 
                 json!({
                     "target_id": blueprint.id.to_string(),
+                    "enabled": true,
                     "needs_saga_recovery": needs_saga_recovery,
                 })
             }
@@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ impl BlueprintExecutor {
                     errors.into_iter().map(|e| format!("{:#}", e)).collect();
                 json!({
                     "target_id": blueprint.id.to_string(),
+                    "enabled": true,
                     "errors": errors
                 })
             }
@@ -316,6 +318,7 @@ mod test {
             value,
             json!({
                 "target_id": blueprint_id,
+                "enabled": true,
                 "needs_saga_recovery": false,
             })
         );
@@ -410,6 +413,7 @@ mod test {
             value,
             json!({
                 "target_id": blueprint.1.id.to_string(),
+                "enabled": true,
                 "needs_saga_recovery": false,
             })
         );
@@ -427,7 +431,7 @@ mod test {
         assert_eq!(
             value,
             json!({
-                "error": "blueprint disabled",
+                "enabled": false,
                 "target_id": blueprint.1.id.to_string()
             })
         );
diff --git a/nexus/src/app/background/tasks/blueprint_load.rs b/nexus/src/app/background/tasks/blueprint_load.rs
index 31bc00441d..70fcf713bc 100644
--- a/nexus/src/app/background/tasks/blueprint_load.rs
+++ b/nexus/src/app/background/tasks/blueprint_load.rs
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ impl BackgroundTask for TargetBlueprintLoader {
             };
 
             // Decide what to do with the new blueprint
+            let enabled = new_bp_target.enabled;
             let Some((old_bp_target, old_blueprint)) = self.last.as_deref()
             else {
                 // We've found a target blueprint for the first time.
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ impl BackgroundTask for TargetBlueprintLoader {
                     "time_created": time_created,
                     "time_found": chrono::Utc::now(),
                     "status": "first target blueprint",
+                    "enabled": enabled,
                 });
             };
 
@@ -116,7 +118,8 @@ impl BackgroundTask for TargetBlueprintLoader {
                     "target_id": target_id,
                     "time_created": time_created,
                     "time_found": chrono::Utc::now(),
-                    "status": "target blueprint updated"
+                    "status": "target blueprint updated",
+                    "enabled": enabled,
                 })
             } else {
                 // The new target id matches the old target id
@@ -159,6 +162,7 @@ impl BackgroundTask for TargetBlueprintLoader {
                         "time_created": time_created,
                         "time_found": chrono::Utc::now(),
                         "status": format!("target blueprint {status}"),
+                        "enabled": enabled,
                     })
                 } else {
                     // We found a new target blueprint that exactly
@@ -173,7 +177,8 @@ impl BackgroundTask for TargetBlueprintLoader {
                     json!({
                         "target_id": target_id,
                         "time_created": time_created,
-                        "status": "target blueprint unchanged"
+                        "status": "target blueprint unchanged",
+                        "enabled": enabled,
                     })
                 }
             }
diff --git a/update-engine/src/display/line_display_shared.rs b/update-engine/src/display/line_display_shared.rs
index 99b03b13f7..99d66bd06f 100644
--- a/update-engine/src/display/line_display_shared.rs
+++ b/update-engine/src/display/line_display_shared.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ use owo_colors::OwoColorize;
 use swrite::{swrite, SWrite as _};
 
 use crate::{
+    display::StepIndexDisplay,
     events::{
         ProgressCounter, ProgressEvent, ProgressEventKind, StepEvent,
         StepEventKind, StepInfo, StepOutcome,
@@ -716,17 +717,16 @@ impl LineDisplayFormatter {
     ) {
         ld_step_info.nest_data.add_prefix(line);
 
-        // Print out "<step index>/<total steps>)". Leave space such that we
-        // print out e.g. "1/8)" and " 3/14)".
-        // Add 1 to the index to make it 1-based.
-        let step_index = ld_step_info.step_info.index + 1;
-        let step_index_width = ld_step_info.total_steps.to_string().len();
+        // Print out "(<current>/<total>)" in a padded way, so that successive
+        // steps are vertically aligned.
         swrite!(
             line,
-            "{:width$}/{:width$}) ",
-            step_index,
-            ld_step_info.total_steps,
-            width = step_index_width
+            "({}) ",
+            StepIndexDisplay::new(
+                ld_step_info.step_info.index,
+                ld_step_info.total_steps
+            )
+            .padded(true),
         );
 
         swrite!(
diff --git a/update-engine/src/display/mod.rs b/update-engine/src/display/mod.rs
index c58a4535a0..f6775dd37b 100644
--- a/update-engine/src/display/mod.rs
+++ b/update-engine/src/display/mod.rs
@@ -11,11 +11,14 @@
 //! * [`LineDisplay`]: a line-oriented display suitable for the command line.
 //! * [`GroupDisplay`]: manages state and shows the results of several
 //!   [`LineDisplay`]s at once.
+//! * Some utility displayers which can be used to build custom displayers.
 
 mod group_display;
 mod line_display;
 mod line_display_shared;
+mod utils;
 
 pub use group_display::GroupDisplay;
 pub use line_display::{LineDisplay, LineDisplayStyles};
 use line_display_shared::*;
+pub use utils::*;
diff --git a/update-engine/src/display/utils.rs b/update-engine/src/display/utils.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a03a09fa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/update-engine/src/display/utils.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+// file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+//! Utility displayers.
+
+use std::fmt;
+
+/// Given an index and a count of total steps, displays `{current}/{total}`.
+///
+/// Here:
+///
+/// * `current` is `index + 1`.
+/// * If `padded` is `true`, `current` is right-aligned and padded with spaces
+///   to the width of `total`.
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```
+/// use update_engine::display::StepIndexDisplay;
+///
+/// let display = StepIndexDisplay::new(0, 8);
+/// assert_eq!(display.to_string(), "1/8");
+/// let display = StepIndexDisplay::new(82, 230);
+/// assert_eq!(display.to_string(), "83/230");
+/// let display = display.padded(true);
+/// assert_eq!(display.to_string(), " 83/230");
+/// ```
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct StepIndexDisplay {
+    index: usize,
+    total: usize,
+    padded: bool,
+}
+
+impl StepIndexDisplay {
+    /// Create a new `StepIndexDisplay`.
+    ///
+    /// The index is 0-based (i.e. 1 is added to it when it is displayed).
+    pub fn new(index: usize, total: usize) -> Self {
+        Self { index, total, padded: false }
+    }
+
+    pub fn padded(self, padded: bool) -> Self {
+        Self { padded, ..self }
+    }
+}
+
+impl fmt::Display for StepIndexDisplay {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        if self.padded {
+            let width = self.total.to_string().len();
+            write!(f, "{:>width$}/{}", self.index + 1, self.total)
+        } else {
+            write!(f, "{}/{}", self.index + 1, self.total)
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/wicket/src/ui/panes/update.rs b/wicket/src/ui/panes/update.rs
index 3a61e25a3a..96a55667fe 100644
--- a/wicket/src/ui/panes/update.rs
+++ b/wicket/src/ui/panes/update.rs
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ use ratatui::widgets::{
 use ratatui::Frame;
 use slog::{info, o, Logger};
 use tui_tree_widget::{Tree, TreeItem, TreeState};
+use update_engine::display::StepIndexDisplay;
 use update_engine::{
     AbortReason, CompletionReason, ExecutionStatus, FailureReason, StepKey,
     TerminalKind, WillNotBeRunReason,
@@ -1984,9 +1985,11 @@ impl ComponentUpdateListState {
                     ));
                     status_text.push(Span::styled(
                         format!(
-                            " (step {}/{})",
-                            step_key.index + 1,
-                            summary.total_steps,
+                            " (step {})",
+                            StepIndexDisplay::new(
+                                step_key.index,
+                                summary.total_steps,
+                            )
                         ),
                         style::plain_text(),
                     ));
@@ -2015,9 +2018,11 @@ impl ComponentUpdateListState {
                             ));
                             status_text.push(Span::styled(
                                 format!(
-                                    " at step {}/{}",
-                                    info.step_key.index + 1,
-                                    summary.total_steps,
+                                    " at step {}",
+                                    StepIndexDisplay::new(
+                                        info.step_key.index,
+                                        summary.total_steps,
+                                    )
                                 ),
                                 style::plain_text(),
                             ));
@@ -2033,9 +2038,11 @@ impl ComponentUpdateListState {
                             ));
                             status_text.push(Span::styled(
                                 format!(
-                                    " at step {}/{}",
-                                    info.step_key.index + 1,
-                                    summary.total_steps,
+                                    " at step {}",
+                                    StepIndexDisplay::new(
+                                        info.step_key.index,
+                                        summary.total_steps,
+                                    )
                                 ),
                                 style::plain_text(),
                             ));