Troubleshooting Guide

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Figure 1: MD level assignment
Maintenance association endpoints (MEP)
A Maintenance Endpoint (MEP) represents a managed CFM entity, associated with a specific
Domain Service Access Point (DoSAP) of a service instance, which can generate and receive CFM
Protocol Data Units (PDU) and track any responses. A MEP is created by MEP ID under the context
of an MA. MEP functionality can be divided into the following functions:
Fault Detection
Fault Verification
Fault Isolation
Fault Notification
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