 In particular, Ethernet operations, administration and maintenance (EOAM) is the protocol for installing, monitoring and troubleshooting Ethernet metropolitan area network (MANs) and Ethernet WANs.It relies on a new, optional sublayer in the data link layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.The OAM features covered by this protocol are discovery, link monitoring, remote fault detection, remote loopback


OAMP, traditionally OAM&P, stands for operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning.