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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Software Configuration Guide—Release 8.7
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Chapter 20 Checking Status and Connectivity
Configuring the Ethernet Local Management Interface
This example shows how to display AIS and RDI errors for the local maintenance points:
Console> (enable)
show ethernet-cfm errors
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Lvl Vlan MPID Remote-MAC Reason MA-Name Domain-Name
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0 2010 8190 00-14-f2-31-c1-08 AIS-Errror vlan2010 dom0
6 2000 8190 00-0b-45-a9-2c-fb RDI-Error vlan2000 dom6
Configuring the Ethernet Local Management Interface
These sections describe how to configure the Ethernet Local Managagement Interface (ELMI):
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Understanding How ELMI Works, page 20-60
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Ethernet Local Management Protocols, page 20-60
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Configuring ELMI, page 20-61
Understanding How ELMI Works
ELMI is an Ethernet layer operation, administration, and management (OAM) protocol. It provides
information that enables autoconfiguration of Customer Edge (CE) devices and provides the status of
Ethernet virtual connections (EVCs) for Metro Ethernet Networks (MENs). ELMI notifies a CE device
of the operating state of an EVC when an EVC is added or deleted to the interfaces. ELMI also
communicates the attributes of an EVC and a user-network interface (UNI) to a CE device.
Ethernet Local Management Protocols
The ELMI protocols are as follows:
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Ethernet Virtual Connections (EVC)—An EVC can be a port level point-to-point or
multipoint-to-multipoint Layer 2 circuit. The CE device can use the EVC status to find an alternative
path to the service provider network, or in some cases, fall back to a backup path over Ethernet or
another alternative service such as Frame Relay or Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).
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Ethernet Local Management Interface (ELMI)—ELMI is an Ethernet layer OAM protocol between
a Customer Edge (CE) device and the Provider Edge (PE) in a MEN. It provides information that
enables service providers to autoconfigure CE devices with service parameters and parameter
changes from a user provider edge (UPE) device.
Task
Command
Step 1
Display the CFM error conditions for
maintenance points that have a specific
maintenance level.
show ethernet-cfm errors
[
level
level
]
Step 1
Display the CFM error conditions for
maintenance points and to specify the name of the
device domain.
show ethernet-cfm errors
[
domain
domain_name
]