This is a long ascii string which contains the GPON OMCI ONU alarms. Each line of text in this string has the following format: aaa,bbb,ccc,'aaaStr,'bbbStr',d\n where aaa : ME classId ( numeric decimal value ) bbb : alarm index ( numeric decimal value ) ccc : entityId ( numeric decimal value ) aaaStr : string version of ME name bbbStr : string version of alarm name d : alarm severity ( 1=critical, 2=major, 3=minor, 4=warning ) The ME classId is the standard value from the 'Managed entity identifiers' table of G984.4. The alarm index is the zero-based index (G984.4 or G983.2) within the ME class. the entityId is the physical port number on the ONT. Here is a sample: 11,0,513,'PptpEthUni','LanLos',2\n 256,1,0,'OntG','PoweringAlarm',3\n If this string has zero length then there are no active alarms. If this string has a single entry with a classId of 65535 then the alarm collection failed. WARNING! In this description, replace the sinqle quote characters with double quote characters! The Zhone scripts have problems with double quote characters!