***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] OpenSM and trap 128.

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Eli Dorfman (Voltaire)
<dorfman.eli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Eli Dorfman (Voltaire)
>> <dorfman.eli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip...>
>>
>>> You can change sweep_on_trap option in opensm.conf to FALSE.
>>> This should stop opensm heavy sweeps.
>>
>> Yes but is that what is really desired ? If sweep on trap is disabled,
>> there is no reaction to legitimate subnet changes.
>>
>
> opensm will still react to subnet changes, but it will be delayed till next light sweep.
> this will ensure that opensm is not configuring all the time but only every sweep interval.

switchinfo changes would be detected but other changes in the subnet
only detected via heavy sweep would be missed, right ?

If so, it seems reasonable to me to not have to disable the heavy
sweep if a proper policy could be determined but the real solution is
compliant SMA firmware.

-- Hal

> Eli
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