On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Eli Dorfman (Voltaire)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Eli Dorfman (Voltaire)
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> <snip...>
>>
>>> You can change sweep_on_trap option in opensm.conf to FALSE.
>>> This should stop opensm heavy sweeps.
>>
>> Yes but is that what is really desired ? If sweep on trap is disabled,
>> there is no reaction to legitimate subnet changes.
>>
>
> opensm will still react to subnet changes, but it will be delayed till next 
> light sweep.
> this will ensure that opensm is not configuring all the time but only every 
> sweep interval.

switchinfo changes would be detected but other changes in the subnet
only detected via heavy sweep would be missed, right ?

If so, it seems reasonable to me to not have to disable the heavy
sweep if a proper policy could be determined but the real solution is
compliant SMA firmware.

-- Hal

> Eli
>
>
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