[ewg] [RESEND] Multiple fabrics and OpenSM

[pavan tc]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:57 AM, pavan tc <pavan.tc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Hal,
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Hal Rosenstock <hal at dev.mellanox.co.il>wrote:
>
>> Hi Pavan,
>>
>> On 3/6/2013 1:19 AM, pavan tc wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > [Please reply to my mail ID since I am not part of the ewg mailing list]
>> >
>> > I am trying to use OpenSM to manage a simple two node back-to-back
>> > connected node IB network.
>> > But for more bandwidth I have two 1 port cards on each of these and have
>> > connected them as below:
>> >
>> >     +----------------+                   +----------------+
>> >     |                  |  IB LINK 1    |                 |
>> >     |                  |--------------------|                 |
>> >     |  Node 1      |                    |    Node 2   |
>> >     |                  |  IB LINK 2    |                 |
>> >     |                  |--------------------|                 |
>> >     |                  |                    |                 |
>> >     +----------------+                   +----------------+
>> >
>> > If I start OpenSM with no specific conf files, it binds to the first
>> > port and the other one cannot be used.
>> > I need to manually start it on the other with '-g' option if I have to
>> > use it. Most solutions I found on the internet are some flavour of
>> > manually starting the instances. I would like to avoid writing an init
>> > script that starts the required number of opensm instances with the
>> > right parameters.
>> >
>> > I wanted to automate this on every boot. Does opensm offer such
>> > mechanisms via some conf file settings?
>>
>> There is /etc/init.d/opensmd script but it needs some mods to support
>> this dual subnet/OpenSM configuration.
>>
>
>> What distro are you using ?
>>
>>
> I am using CentOS 6.2.
>

Hello Hal,

Any more information that I can get on launching multiple OpenSM instances?

Thanks,
Pavan


>
> Pavan
>
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