This read-only Integer32 object (0-255) is a consolidated bitmap of the channel's alarm state, with specific bit positions assigned to specific fail/alarm conditions such as network-side CC failure/AIS/RDI receive at bit 1 and conditioned A-bit at bit 2, with reserved bits always zero. This gives an admin a single compact value encoding multiple simultaneous alarm conditions on a channel, useful for programmatic monitoring tools that need to check several fault flags at once. A monitoring system polling many channels would mask specific bits of this value to detect, for example, whether the network-side CC failure bit is set without needing to query several separate alarm objects individually.