This accessible-for-notify ItuPerceivedSeverity object reports the current severity of a Media Gateway event, and is carried in the eriRouterH248LinkStatusAlarm notification as major when the H.248 link to a Media Gateway Controller Group has been down past a configured timeout, or as clear once the link is restored. An admin filters or escalates incoming traps based on this value to prioritize response to major link outages over informational clears. For example, receiving this field as major immediately tells the admin the H.248 link outage is significant enough to warrant paging on-call staff, while a later clear value confirms the link recovered.