Hello, See: "Operation, Administration, and Maintenance" http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/atm/c8540/12_1/peregrin/sw_c onfg/op_maint.htm#30838 Good luck. If you didn't get a good overview it will be a crapshoot to write a program to do it. Hmmm, hope the above helps. Let me guess, its a directive from "Marketing".... ---------------------------------- >Hi, >I am to design the performance managment and fault managment for an ethernet >gigabit switch. Please can anyone of you share any documents which you are >aware of may help me. I have absolutely no idea as to what OAM is and till >now i have only worked on routing. What exactly is OAM and any links anybody >is aware of ?? > >Thanks and Regards, >Mary Sheldon > >