F5 OAM cells are used to detect connectivity failures and recoveries at the ATM layer. Before the introduction of this feature,
Cisco IOS software provided support for SNMP traps (also called SNMP notifications) for F5 end-to-end loopback, and F5 AIS/RDI
connectivity failures on a PVC. The ATM PVC F5 OAM Recovery Traps feature introduces SNMP traps that notify the network management
system (NMS) when connectivity is restored to a PVC after the following types of failures:
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F5 OAM end-to-end loopback failures
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F5 OAM segment AIS/RDI failures
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F5 OAM end-to-end AIS/RDI failures
Information in the traps includes the number of PVCs that recovered and time stamps indicating when the first and last recoveries
occurred during the notification interval.
To limit the amount of traffic that can be generated by the F5 OAM failure and recovery traps, only one trap of each type
can be generated in each trap interval. Each trap can report on multiple PVCs, and successive PVCs that have the same failure
or recovery are reported as a range.
In addition to the traps, MIB tables are maintained to provide information about the failures and recoveries on PVCs.
For a complete description of the extended ATM PVC Trap MIB, including the supported notifications and tables, see the MIB
file called CISCO-ATM-PVCTRAP-EXTN-MIB.my, available through Cisco.com at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml