EMS will send this object as an attached parameter, of traps sent to another vendor's NMS. It will include the Severity configured by user for the respective trap via Admin Console of the Fault Management. The implementation was done so that the string includes characters of digits, while each digit represents a severity, as follows: '0' - undefined '1' - normal '2' - indeterminate '3' - warning '4' - minor '5' - major '6' - critical