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

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

Steps to use entries in this table:

1) Wait for zxAnCfm2MepTransLbmEnable value to be disabled. To do this do this sequence: a. an SNMP GET for both snmpSetSerialNo and zxAnCfm2MepTransLbmEnable objects (in same SNMP PDU). b. Check if value for zxAnCfm2MepTransLbmEnable 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 zxAnCfm2MepTransLbmEnable 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 zxAnCfm2MepTransLbmEnable 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, optional TLVs,...). 4) Record the current values of zxAnCfm2MepLbrInInOrder, zxAnCfm2MepLbrInOutOfOrder, and zxAnCfm2MepLbrBadMsdu. 5) Check the value of zxAnCfm2MepTransLbmResultOk to find out if the operation was successfully initiated or not. 6) Monitor the value of zxAnCfm2MepTransLbmEnable. When it is reset to false, the last LBM has been transmitted. Wait an additional 5 seconds to ensure that all LBRs have been returned. 7) Compare zxAnCfm2MepLbrInInOrder, zxAnCfm2MepLbrInOutOfOrder, and zxAnCfm2MepLbrBadMsdu to their old values from step 4, above, to get the results of the test.