[Users] maintaining IB topology maps

[Hal Rosenstock]

Please describe what you are trying to do again. I've cc'd a couple of
people who are ibutils2 experts.

Which MLNX OFED are you using ?
The topology file formats are different between ibdiagnet and ibnetdiscover.

-- Hal



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Narayan Desai <narayan.desai at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm using ubuntu, so the answer is murky. I'd say that it is mainly
> upstream'ed OFED, but there I do have some systems running MLNX-OFED that I
> could run stuff from.
>
> So far, I've been running ibutils, and using ibdiagnet.
>
> I've managed to run ibdiscover, using a guid to node name map, but can't
> figure out how to run ibdiagnet with the topology file it produces. It
> complains about the topology file, and says that it loaded 0/0
> systems/nodes. I've also tried running ibdiagnet with -t and -s, but it
> doesn't seem to like the local system's hostname as a value for -s.
>  -nld
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Are you using ibdiagnet from ibutils or ibutils2 ? Are you using
>> upstream, OFED, or MLNX OFED for ibdiagnet ?
>>
>> You could also do this with ibnetdiscover and node_name_map feature.
>>
>> -- Hal
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Narayan Desai <narayan.desai at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> We're going through the process of organizing our IB management
>>> procedures, and it seems like a good idea to build a topology map. I've
>>> used ibdiagnet to generate a topology, but it looks like the node names
>>> aren't uniformly included.
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain how this works, point me a docs, or alternatively, if
>>> there is a better way to set this up, I'd love to hear about it.
>>> thanks in advance, as always.
>>>  -nld
>>>
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