Users Guide

Enable Ethernet CFM
To enable the Ethernet CFM, use the following commands:
1. Spawn the CFM process. No CFM configuration is allowed until the CFM process is spawned.
CONFIGURATION mode
ethernet cfm
2. Disable Ethernet CFM without stopping the CFM process.
ETHERNET CFM
disable
Creating a Maintenance Domain
Connectivity fault management (CFM) divides a network into hierarchical maintenance domains, as shown in Maintenance Domains.
1. Create maintenance domain.
ETHERNET CFM mode
domain name md-level number
The range is from 0 to 7.
2. Display maintenance domain information.
EXEC Privilege mode
show ethernet cfm domain [name | brief]
Dell# show ethernet cfm domain
Domain Name: customer
Level: 7
Total Service: 1
Services
MA-Name VLAN CC-Int X-CHK Status
My_MA 200 10s enabled
Domain Name: praveen
Level: 6
Total Service: 1
Services
MA-Name VLAN CC-Int X-CHK Status
Your_MA 100 10s enabled
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.
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