iC Navigator is also the front end for—and depends largely upon—an iControl service called the General Status Manager (GSM). At least one GSM is always running on an Application Server on a given network¹. It acts as a central clearing station for device discovery and alarm status.

All iControl alarm notifications are managed through a central GSM. Alarm notifications from multiple distributed GSMs are managed by the multi-GSM Manager, which computes the virtual alarm, gets its status and dispatches the alarm status to the client.