OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000 Network Configuration Guide March 2008 page 8-1
8 Configuring Ethernet OAM
The rise in the number of Ethernet service instances has resulted in service providers requiring a powerful
and robust set of management tools to maintain Ethernet service networks. Service provider networks are
large and intricate, often comprising of different operators that work together to provide the customers
with end-to-end services. The challenge for the service providers is to provide a highly available conver-
gent network to its customer base. Ethernet OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance) provides
the detection, resiliency, and monitoring capability for end-to-end service guarantee in an Ethernet
network.
Note. Ethernet OAM is only supported on the OmniSwitch 6850 Series and the OmniSwitch 9000 Series
in this release.
In This Chapter
This chapter describes the Ethernet OAM feature, how to configure it and display Ethernet OAM informa-
tion through the Command Line Interface (CLI). For more details about the syntax of commands, see the
OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.
The following procedures are described in this chapter:
• Creating and Deleting a Maintenance Domain on page 8-7.
• Creating and Deleting a Maintenance Association on page 8-8.
• Creating and Deleting a Maintenance End Point on page 8-8.
• Configuring Loopback on page 8-9.
• Configuring Linktrace on page 8-9.
• Configuring the Fault Alarm Time on page 8-10.
• Configuring the Fault Reset Time on page 8-10.
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