FA management

You can configure a management I-SID on an FA-enabled port or MLT. This I-SID includes an optional C-VID parameter, which is a VLAN ID that is locally significant to the port or MLT and does not represent a platform VLAN.

Depending on whether the C-VID value is specified, the behavior is as follows:

If you do not configure a management I-SID, the FA Server transmits a management VLAN ID value of 0 in the FA Element TLV. A client/proxy that receives the FA Element TLV retains the initial management configuration (if any) on its device.

Limitations of FA management I-SIDs

FA management configuration considerations

A Switched UNI I-SID that is created when an FA assignment is learned on a port or MLT, is uniquely identified by a tuple comprising of one of the combinations of (port, I-SID and C-VID) or (MLT ID, I-SID and C-VID). When you configure FA management, similar tuples are used. You can configure FA management on an FA-enabled port or MLT on which FA assignment mappings are learned, as long as the FA management tuple exactly matches the tuple created by the learned FA mapping.

The following scenarios describe the behavior when you configure FA management on a port or MLT that also receives learned FA mappings, but the tuples do not match.