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Chapter 8
Operations, Administration, and
Maintenance (OAM)
This chapter describes the Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
(OAM) feature, which provides mechanism useful for monitoring link
operation such as remote fault indication and remote loopback control. In
general, OAM provides network operators the ability to monitor the
condition of the network and determine the location of the failing links or
fault conditions.
This chapter contains the following procedures:
ˆ “Overview” on page 112
ˆ “Configuring OAM Operations on a Port” on page 115
ˆ “Displaying OAM Information and Statistics” on page 120
ˆ “OAM Loopback Test” on page 129
ˆ “Sending an OAM Variable Request” on page 133