Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Network Guide
OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide
September 2009
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15 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.
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.
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.
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
.
• Configuring the Fault Reset Time on
.