Creating A Maintenance Association; Create Maintenance Points; Creating A Maintenance End Point - Dell S4048T Configuration Manual

Services
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Creating a Maintenance Association

A Maintenance association (MA) is a subdivision of an MD that contains all managed entities corresponding to
a single end-to-end service, typically a virtual area network (VLAN).
• Create maintenance association.
ECFM DOMAIN mode
service name vlan vlan-id

Create Maintenance Points

Domains are comprised of logical entities called maintenance points. A maintenance point is a interface
demarcation that confines CFM frames to a domain.
There are two types of maintenance points:
• Maintenance End Points (MEPs) — a logical entity that marks the end-point of a domain.
• Maintenance Intermediate Points (MIPs) — a logical entity configured at a port of a switch that
constitutes intermediate points of an Maintenance Entity (ME). An ME is a point-to-point relationship
between two MEPs within a single domain.
These roles define the relationships between all devices so that each device can monitor the layers under its
responsibility.

Creating a Maintenance End Point

A maintenance endpoint (MEP) is a logical entity that marks the endpoint of a domain.
There are two types of MEPs defined in 802.1ag for an 802.1 bridge:
• Up-MEP — monitors the forwarding path internal to a bridge on the customer or provider edge. On Dell
Networking systems, the internal forwarding path is effectively the switch fabric and forwarding engine.
• Down-MEP — monitors the forwarding path external another bridge.
Configure Up- MEPs on ingress ports, that send traffic towards the bridge relay. Configure Down-MEPs on
egress ports, that send traffic away from the bridge relay.
1 Create an MEP.
INTERFACE mode
ethernet cfm mep {up-mep | down-mep} domain {name | level } ma-name name mepid
mep-id
CC-Int X-CHK Status
10s enabled
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