(Optional) Configuring the Protection Switching Trigger Mechanism

This section describes how to configure the protection switching trigger mechanism for a tunnel protection group to forcibly switch traffic to the working or protection tunnel. Alternatively, you can perform a traffic switchover manually.

Context

Read switching rules before configuring the protection switching trigger mechanism.

Perform the following steps on the ingress of the tunnel protection group as needed:

Procedure

Run system-view
The system view is displayed.
Run interface tunnel interface-number
The tunnel interface view is displayed.
Select one of the following protection switching trigger methods as required:
- To forcibly switch traffic from the working tunnel to the protection tunnel, run mpls te protect-switch force
- To prevent traffic on the working tunnel from switching to the protection tunnel, run mpls te protect-switch lock
- To switch traffic to the protection tunnel, run mpls te protect-switch manual
- To cancel the configuration of the protection switching trigger mechanism, run mpls te protect-switch clear
The preceding commands can take effect immediately after being run, without the commit command executed.