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This chapter describes the Global Call Alarm Management System (GCAMS). Topics include the 
following:

Global Call alarms originate from alarm source objects (ASO). An alarm source object can be a 
network library, a call control library, or it can reside within a call control library. Some alarm 
source objects are for internal Global Call use only and are not available to the application. 

There are basically two sources of Global Call alarms: 

Layer 1 alarms (physical alarms) 

“Logical” alarms, such as remote side out of service, or layer 2 or layer 3 out of service 

The portion of the Global Call call control library that manages alarms is called the Global Call 
Alarm Management System (GCAMS). GCAMS is initialized automatically when Global Call is 
started. 

GCAMS provides Global Call applications with the ability to receive extensive alarm information. 
Some of the ways this information can be used include: 

Managing the network 

Troubleshooting hardware 

Monitoring line quality 

Working with the central office to solve line problems 

Generating status reports 

Modifying alarm source object properties and characteristics based on alarm history 

Manual handling of alarms for drop and insert applications. 

The following sections describe the components and operation of GCAMS. 

The alarm management system is made up of several components, including GCAMS. The other 
components are the customer application’s alarm management system (AMS), and the alarm 
source objects (ASOs). ASOs can either reside within a call control library (cclib) or separate from