"Alive" only means ew manager module is receiving heartbeat messages from slink2ew.
You can check using sniffwave, supposing you are receiving slink data on ring WAVE_RING, for station (e.g. BALD):
sniffwave WAVE_RING | grep BALD
you should get similar output:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sniffwave WAVE_RING | grep BALD
sniffwave: inRing flushed 532 packets of 1041712 bytes total.
BALD.HHZ.OX.-- (0x32 0x30) 0 i4 420 100.0 2022/11/29 08:40:51.69 (1669711251.6884) 2022/11/29 08:40:55.88 (1669711255.8784) 0x00 0x00 i255 m126 t19 len1744 [D:13.65s F: 0.0s]
BALD.HHZ.OX.HP (0x32 0x30) 0 i4 420 100.0 2022/11/29 08:40:50.86 (1669711250.8591) 2022/11/29 08:40:55.05 (1669711255.0491) 0x00 0x00 i255 m51 t19 len1744 [D:14.68s F: 0.0s]
BALD.HHZ.OX.-- (0x32 0x30) 0 i4 428 100.0 2022/11/29 08:40:55.89 (1669711255.8884) 2022/11/29 08:41:00.16 (1669711260.1584) 0x00 0x00 i255 m126 t19 len1776 [D:9.77s F: 0.4s]
Warning about state file means at first run it can't find state file for seedlink, it's normal at first run.
For the while don't take care about state file...