Description: The Maintenance Association End Point (MEP) LinkTrace operation table stores all the managed objects for sending LTM.

LTM Managed objects in the MEP table enables the management entity to initiate transmission of LinkTrace messages. It will signal the MEP that it SHOULD transmit some number of LinkTrace messages and detect the detection (or lack thereof) of the corresponding LinkTrace messages.

Steps to use entries in this table:

1) Wait for zxAnCfm2MepTransLtmEnable value to be disabled. To do this do this sequence: a. an SNMP GET for both snmpSetSerialNo and zxAnCfm2MepTransLtmEnable objects (in same SNMP PDU). b. Check if value for zxAnCfm2MepTransLtmEnable is disabled. - if not, wait x seconds, go to step a above. - if enabled, save the value of snmpSetSerialNo and go to step 2) below 2) Change zxAnCfm2MepTransLtmEnable value from disabled to enabled to ensure no other management entity will use the service. In order to not disturb a possible other NMS do this by sending an SNMP SET for both snmpSetSerialNo and zxAnCfm2MepTransLtmEnable objects (in same SNMP PDU, and make sure snmpSetSerialNo is the first varBind). For the snmpSetSerialNo varBind, use the value that you obtained in step 1)a.. This ensures that two cooperating NMSes will not step on each others toes. Setting this MIB object does not set the corresponding LBIactive state machine variable. 3) Setup the different data to be sent (number of messages, ,...). 4) Check the value of zxAnCfm2MepTransLtmResultOk to find out if the operation was successfully initiated or not. 5) Monitor the value of zxAnCfm2MepTransLtmEnable. When it is reset to false, the last LTM has been transmitted. Wait an additional 5 seconds to ensure that all LTRs have been returned. 6) Read the zxAnCfm2MepLinkTraceReplyTable to get the results of the test.