When the Optical Transport Manager diagnoses a root cause problem, it calculates whether the problem has caused service to be lost on end-to-end circuits that depend on the affected object. When service has been lost, the Optical Transport Manager creates the following notification:

Table 1. Impact of failures on circuits when protection is unavailable

Root-cause Notification

Element

Context

Down

Card or Equipment

Circuits passing through or depending on the Card or Equipment

Down

PTP

Circuits passing through the PTP.

Down or SignalDegrade

DropSideTopologicalLink

Circuits passing through the TopologicalLink.