Mellanox Technologies Switch-IB, User Manual

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Switch Management Tools
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• Switch-IB™ and Switch-IB™ 2 FW version
• switch temperatures
The manager also has the ability to burn new firmware and upgrade software on the switch.
5.1 InfiniBand Subnet Manager
The InfiniBand Subnet Manager (SM) is a centralized entity running in the switch. It discovers
and configures all the InfiniBand fabric devices to enable traffic flow between those devices. The
SM applies network traffic related configurations such as QoS, routing, partitioning to the fabric
devices.
Each InfiniBand subnet needs one SM to discover, activate and manage the subnet. The network
requires an SM to be running in either the InfiniBand switch itself (switch based) or on one of the
nodes which is connected to the InfiniBand fabric (host based). To learn about SM configuration,
please refer to the MLNX-OS® User Manual.
5.2 Fabric Inspector (Diagnostics)
Fabric Inspector is a plug & play software for fee within MLNX-OS® displaying and filtering all
identified systems and nodes within the fabric.
Fabric Inspector includes a complete set of tools for fabric wide diagnostics to check node-node
and node-switch connectivity and to verify routes within the fabric.
Advanced filtering allows creating filtering rules on a system wide basis, between nodes or port
connections based on traffic patterns and user assigned system names (GUIDs).
For more information please refer to the MLNX-OS® User Manual.
5.3 Accessing the CPU via the Ethernet Connector
Once the initial configuration is completed the management tools can be accessed through:
• SSH
• Telnet
• WEB
• SNMP
• XML
5.4 Upgrading Software
The new software updates are available to the user from the Mellanox Support website. Copy the
update to a known location on a remote server within your LAN and follow the steps listed in
MLNX-OS® User Manual to perform the software upgrade.
If
MLNX-OS®
is updated and the FW image in the leafs and spines of the chassis is
an earlier version from the minimum requirement, then the chassis management system
may require up to ~30 minutes to update all of the FW images in all of the leafs and
spines.