[ofa-general] Re: opensmd init.d script question

[John Partridge]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Hi John,
> One can run 2 OpenSMs on different CA/ports on a single machine. 

Yes, in fact this is exactly what we have been doing. Although we
have been running OpenSM by hand to achieve this.

> The main things in doing this is setting them up to use different
> directories. This is accomplished via setting OSM_CACHE_DIR. You will
> want to configure dump_files_dir and log_file to be different. 

Yes, in fact that is what we have done.

> Also, you
> will likely want different subnet_prefix configured in each subnet
> (opensm.opts). There may be other configuration files different as well
> based on what your requirements are.
> 
> Hope this helps.

Yes it has thank you.

> 
> As to how to do this with opensmd, I'm not sure as I don't work with
> that. When you figure this out, it would be useful if you posted the
> information. Thanks.

OK, I will feed back any changes to opensmd and the /etc/opensm.conf
files. Who should these go to ?

Regards
John

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