Users Guide

Conguring the CFM
To congure the CFM, follow these steps:
1. Congure the ecfmacl CAM region using the cam-acl command. Refer to Congure Ingress ACLs.
2. Enabling Ethernet CFM
3. Creating a Maintenance Domain
4. Creating a Maintenance Association
5. Create Maintenance Points
6. Use CFM tools:
a. Continuity Check Messages
b. Sending Loopback Messages and Responses
c. Sending Linktrace Messages and Responses
Related Conguration Tasks
• Enabling CFM SNMP Traps
• Displaying Ethernet CFM Statistics
Enabling Ethernet CFM
To enable the Ethernet CFM, use the following tasks.
1. Spawn the CFM process. No CFM conguration 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]
Example of Viewing Congured Maintenance Domains
Dell# show ethernet cfm domain
Domain Name: customer
Level: 7
Total Service: 1
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