The protection group command table entry. Each entry in this table contains objects that operate on the state event machine for the protection group and can be configured when the protection group entry is active. There are 3 types of triggers that influence the operation, and therefore, the currently operational state for each protection group -: (a) External commands that can be issued by administrator on the local (self/near-end) bridge (b) Signalling conditions that occur on the local bridge (c) Requests from the far-end bridge carried received through the APS PDUs The result of whether any of the above triggers are accepted and applied to the state machine for the protection group or not, is indicated by the corresponding 'status' objects in each entry in this table. The last applicable and currently operational trigger (whether local or far end) that was accepted by the state machine is indicated by the 'ActiveRequest' object for this entry and the current state is indicated by the 'SemState' object.