Patent ID: 8310939
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for configuring operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) properties, comprising: delivering a message carrying OAM property configuration indicating information; and flowing through a plurality of nodes to be configured in the process of delivering the message, and configuring, by each of the nodes to be configured, an OAM property of a present node according to the OAM property configuration indicating information in the message flowing through the present node; wherein the OAM property configuration indicating information in the message comprises: universal maintenance information of the nodes to be configured and distinctive maintenance information of the nodes to be configured; and the configuring, by each of the nodes to be configured, the OAM property of the present node according to the OAM property configuration indicating information in the message flowing through the present node comprises: configuring, by each of the nodes to be configured, distinctive maintenance information corresponding to the present node and universal maintenance information required by the present node according to the OAM property configuration indicating information in the message flowing through the present node; wherein the OAM property configuration indicating information in the message further comprises addresses of nodes to be configured which the distinctive maintenance information relates to; the distinctive maintenance information of the nodes to be configured comprises identifiers (IDs) of maintenance entity group (MEG) endpoints (MEPs), and the addresses of the nodes to be configured which the distinctive maintenance information relates to comprise addresses of nodes that the MEPs belong to; and the configuring the distinctive maintenance information corresponding to the present node according to the OAM property configuration indicating information in the message flowing through the present node comprises: if the addresses of the nodes that the MEPs belong to in the message flowing through the present node comprise an address of the present node, configuring a port on the present node as an MEP and configuring a corresponding MEP ID.