The capability of remote alarm support for the link event on the local end is a prerequisite for reporting the link fault event and link performance event to the opposite equipment. To report the link fault event and link performance event to the opposite equipment, the capability of remote alarm support for the link event must be provided on the local end.
Prerequisites
- Applicable to the LEM18 board of the OptiX OSN 1800(NA).
- Applicable to the TBE board of the OptiX OSN 6800A and OptiX OSN 3800A.
- Applicable to the 11LEX4, 11LEM24 board of the OptiX OSN 6800A, OptiX OSN 3800A, OptiX OSN 8800 T32(NA) and OptiX OSN 8800 T64(NA).
- Make sure that the OAM auto-discovery succeed.
Background Information
When the OAM auto-discovery succeeds at the two ends, the link fault detection and performance detection are automatically started.
- To report the detected link fault event to the opposite equipment, Remote Alarm Support for Link Event must be set to Enabled for the local equipment.
- To report the detected link fault event to the opposite equipment, the following operations must be performed for the local equipment.
- Set Remote Alarm Support for Link Event as Enabled.
- Set Error Frame Period Window (Frames) and Error Frame Monitor Threshold (Entries), refer to Configuring the OAM Error Frame Monitor Threshold.
