[ofa-general] [RFC] IB management changes proposal

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 05:40, GREGOIRE Philippe wrote:
> Hal Rosenstock a écrit :
> > The following changes are proposed for IB management (master branch of
> > my management git tree):
> >
> > In order to better match package names, the following directory names to
> > be changed from->to:
> > 	osm->opensm
> > 	diags->openib-diags
> >
> > Since opensm is a system daemon, opensm to be moved from /usr/bin to /usr/sbin
> >
> > For consistency with the package name, /var/cache/osm moved to
> > /var/cache/opensm
> >
> > Also, for consistency with the package name, all config, log, and dump files named osm* 
> > to be changed to opensm*
> >
> > To avoid confusion and possible conflicts in configuring daemon options,
> > only have 1 configuration file (existence of both /etc/sysconfig/opensm 
> > and /etc/opensm.conf is problematic).  Remove the /etc/sysconfig/opensm 
> > file and only use opensm.conf.  Move opensm.conf to /etc/rdma (as 
> > discussed in the thread labeled "Location and naming of RDMA enablement 
> > stack rpm" on general at lists.openfabrics.org.
> >
> > Any comments ?
> >
> > -- Hal
> >
> >
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> commands provided by openib-diags should be installed also in /usr/sbin 
> as they are privileged system administrator commands.

OK; that's the general usage based on umad access.

> There also some few commands (ib*.pl) that are using a file 
> /tmp/ibnetdiscover.topology.  I suggest /var/cache/ibnetdiscover.topology

I'm not sure about this one. I need to think about this more.

-- Hal

> Philippe