[openib-general] [RFC] OpenSM Interactive Console

[Greg Lindahl]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:29:57AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> I guess the point of all this is find a end-user use-case for the SM
> MIB, and work back from there to decide if haveing a MIB actually helps
> solve the problem.

The end-use case is likely to be something like "an enterprise which
insists on managing as much as possible through HP OpenView." Which
isn't anyone in HPC, hence the current lack of interest.

Now the things you'd actually want to monitor for a cluster, it's not
really the normal stuff that's in MIBs. I'd want to know if a cable
was unexpectedly unplugged, or if a node was up but its IB connection
wasn't. I'd like to know if a link had an unusual error rate.

-- greg