A MEP's persistent defect condition has cleared. A notification is sent to the management entity with the OID of the MEP that has cleared the fault. The management entity receiving the notification can identify the system from the network source address of the notification, and can identify the MEP by the indices in the OID of the prvtCfmMepIdentifier variable in the notification: prvtCfmMdName - Also the index of the MEP's Maintenance Domain table entry (prvtCfmMdTable). prvtCfmMaName - Also an index (with the MD table index) of the MEP's Maintenance Association table entry (prvtCfmMaTable), prvtCfmMepIdentifier - MEP Identifier and final index into the MEP table (prvtCfmMepTable).