Ethernet Operation, Administration and Management 802.1ag CFM
3. Under Ports, select the MIPs (or MIPs) participating in the domain and use the arrows to
allocated them to the domain or remove them from this domain.
4. Click OK. The new definitions appears in the CFM Domain pane, MIPs area.
5. Define MAs according to the following section.
802.1ag MA Definitions
A Maintenance Association (MA) accounts for all MEPs from a common service or provider.
An MA can be defined according to a user assigned name (string of characters) or by
selecting a VLAN ID.
Note the following:
Each CFM Domain Instance allows configuration of up to 256 Maintenance
Associations.
Each Maintenance Association allows a list of up to 16 VLANs in MA.
Up to 64 MA can be monitored using a one sec CCM interval (minimal). Other MEPs can
be monitored as part of a 10 sec interval.
CFM Maintenance Association content cannot be edited, DLT/ENT should be used
instead. All associated data should be deleted prior to Delete.
Up to 256 Maintenance Associations can be configured for each domain.
To define a CFM Maintenance Association
1. Invoke the pane of the domain whose MAs are to be defined by doing one of the
following:
In the Network Element tree, under Service CFM, select the relevant domain.
In the Network Element tree, select Service CFM and double-click on the defined
domain.
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