Creating a Maintenance Association

To create a maintenance association, include the maintenance-association ma-name statement at the [edit protocols oam ethernet connectivity-fault-management maintenance-domain domain-name] hierarchy level.

Maintenance association names can be in one of the following formats:

• As a plain ASCII character string
• As the VLAN identifier of the VLAN you primarily associate with the maintenance association
• As a two-octet identifier in the range from 0 through 65,535
• As a name in the format specified by RFC 2685

The default short name format is an ASCII character string.

To configure the maintenance association short name format, include the short-name-format (character-string | vlan | 2octet | rfc-2685-vpn-id) statement at the [edit protocols oam ethernet connectivity-fault-management maintenance-domain domain-name maintenance-association ma-name] hierarchy level.