This enumerated value reports the current alarm severity or type, HIHI, HI, LO, LOLO for analog properties, or DiscreteMajor/DiscreteMinor for discrete ones, for the currentAlarmTable entry identified by currentAlarmOID. An admin reads this alongside currentAlarmOID and currentAlarmAlarmValue to know both which object is alarming and how severe the condition is without walking the whole propertyTable. For example, a value of caasDiscreteMajor(6) paired with a currentAlarmOID of fnOpticalReceiverABSwitchState.1 tells the admin that a fiber node's A/B optical switch has tripped a major discrete alarm.