This variable indicates the status of the interface. When an alarm is raised, this would indicate which threshold was exceeded. This object is updated every 15-minutes. Once the current 15-min window has passed, and there are no errors in the current 15-min window, the object is cleared from the lower level sonet task. The cwsSectionStatAlarmStatus is a bit map represented as a sum, therefore, it can represent multiple defects simultaneously. If none of the bits are set, it indicates no defect. The various bit positions are: 1 sonetSectionTotalESs 2 sonetSectionTotalSESs 3 sonetSectionTotalSEFSs 4 sonetSectionTotalCVs 5 sonetSectionCurrentESs 6 sonetSectionCurrentSESs 7 sonetSectionCurrentSEFSs 8 sonetSectionCurrentCVs