General Status Manager (GSM)
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 network. 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.