Connectivity Fault Management in Junos Fusion

Connectivity fault management (CFM) allows the Ethernet network to be monitored according to IEEE 802.1AG and ITU-T Y.1731 standards. A CFM session monitors the maintenance endpoints (MEPs) in a maintenance association (MA). MEPS use continuity check messages (CCMs) to determine the connectivity status between MEPs in the MA.

Junos Fusion Provider Edge supports CFM sessions on the extended ports of the satellite devices via the cascade port on the aggregation device. The aggregation device handles and processes the transmission and reception of the CFM messages. From a CFM perspective, the satellite devices operate in a transparent mode.

CFM selects the cascade port that is associated with a satellite device as the anchor for the CFM sessions that are configured on the extended ports of the satellite device and it processes the sessions in the PFE that is associated with the cascade port. When a satellite device is connected to multiple cascade ports on the aggregation device, CFM selects the first available cascade port as the anchor. If the anchor cascade port fails, the next available cascade port is selected as anchor and the CFM sessions processing is moved to the PFE of newly selected anchor. The CFM sessions can flap when the sessions are re-anchored. During the switchover, the measurement interval in the CFM session restarts.

Junos Fusion Provider Edge supports the following CFM feature:

• Distributed and inline CFM sessions.

• CCM status for down MEPs and multiple up MEPs

• Support for link trace (LT) and loopback (LB).

• Delay measurement (DM)and synthetic loss measurement (SLM) as defined in ITU-T Y-1731 standard.

For more information on configuring CFM, see IEEE 802.1ag OAM Connectivity Fault Management Overview