Alarm Manager Module

Overview

The host must manage Alarm messages sent from the CSP.

Alarm Message

The Alarm message includes the following fields:

Severity

Excel has assigned the following severity levels to alarms, but you should become familiar with each alarm and determine how your application should treat them:

• Informative

• Minor

• Major

Alarm Type

Alarms are identified by the following types:

• General

• Card

• Span

• Channel

• DSP

• DSP SIMM

• CSP Node

• DS3

• VoIP Module

Alarm Number

Each alarm within a type has a unique number. See the Alarm message in the API Reference for alarm numbers.

Data Length

Some alarms have unique data associated with them. The Data Length field preceding the data indicates the length of the data to follow. If there is no data, the length is 0x00.

Data

Please refer to the specific Alarm message in the API Reference to see the data associated with that alarm, if any.