ma-name

Creates a maintenance association (MA) within a specified domain. The command changes the maintenance domain mode to the specified maintenance association mode.

Syntax

ma-name ma-name [ id ma-id ] [ vlan-id vlan-id ] [ bridge-domain bridge-domain ] { priority priority }

no ma-name ma-name

Command Default

There are no MA configured.

Parameters

ma-name: Specifies the maintenance association name. The name attribute is case-sensitive.
ma-id: Specifies the short maid that is transmitted in the CCM PDU. This ID is unique. The range is 1 - 4090.
vlan-id: Specifies a unique VLAN identifier of the maintenance association in the range 1-4090. To create a MA, a vlan id must be set.
bridge-domain: Specifies a unique L2VPN domain of the maintenance association. This option supports only Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) in this release. VLL is not currently supported for CFM.
priority: Specifies the priority of the CCM messages sent by MEPs, in the range 0-7.

Modes

CFM protocol configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

The no form of the command removes the maintenance association.

Examples

This example demonstrates associating the MA "ma1" to VLAN 30.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# protocol cfm
device(config-cfm)# domain name md1 level 4
device(config-cfm-md-md1)# ma-name ma1 id 1 vlan-id 30 priority 4
device(config-cfm-md-ma-ma1)#