On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:56 +0200, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: > Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > On 06:49 Wed 24 Oct , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:39 +0200, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > >>> On 10:48 Mon 15 Oct , Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: > >>>>>> Switches have the NodeDescription filled by FW, and it's usually the > >>>>>> same string for all the switches. > >>>>> It must not be same. Also I suppose that node description can be changed > >>>>> at least for some managed switches even today. > >>>> Come on, man... > >>>> How many cluster administrators that you know will actually go and set > >>>> NodeDescription on switches??? > >>> I know at least one asked for this. > >> Perhaps switch_map can be used in conjunction with this like in the > >> diags ? > > > > Hmm, right, switch_map is another example of switch naming, which is > > useful with diags. > > Perhaps even more generic - guid to name map? And this will work instead > > of (or in addition to) node description when specified? > > Can you elaborate on this? > What exactly is switch_map?
See infiniband-diags (ibnetdiscover man page for one). > And why would be need an additional guid-to-anything map if we > already have node map indexed by guids (or am I missing something)? GUIDs are not the most admin friendly identifiers. -- Hal > -- Yevgeny > > > Sasha > > > _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
