Patent ID: 8458322

Claim:
A method, comprising: maintaining, at a particular maintenance end-point (MEP) of a particular network, a configured list of MEPs within the particular network; in response to receiving, at the particular MEP, a join announcement message (JAM) from a first remote MEP not in the configured list that requests addition of the first remote MEP to the configured list without an unexpected MEP alarm, adding the first remote MEP to the configured list without alarm; processing one or more received continuity check messages (CCMs) from the first remote MEP that has been added to the configured list; and in response to receiving, at the particular MEP, a leave announcement message (LAM) from a second remote MEP in the configured list that requests removal of the second remote MEP from the configured list without a missing MEP alarm, removing the second remote MEP from the configured list without alarm.