I would suggest to use SNMP for the tasks below. IETF IPoIB group has defined an SNMP MIB that can support the required functionality below.
Everything but the dynamic partitioning (OpenSM does not have partition manager to this moment) and forwarding of Performance Monitoring traps (which are generated by the PM) can be done through osmsh or through SA client today.
EZ
Eitan Zahavi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Benjegerdes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:23 AM
> To: Hal Rosenstock
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] [RFC] OpenSM Interactive Console
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:10:31PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > Currently, OpenSM does not support an interactive console. There has
> > been a desire to introduce the ability to change certain parameters (as
> > well as display things) once OpenSM has started. This patch introduces
> > the first most basic commands: help and loglevel. I am investgating
> > adding smpriority to this. The console is invoked by specifying -console
> > as an option on the opensm command line.
> >
> > If you have a request for a command you would like in the console, I
> > would like to compile a list of these.
> >
> > Comments ?
>
> As well as a console, I'd like an API for some way for external programs
> (say a cluster queue manager) to be able to query the SM (or the sm + some
> helper library) for the following things:
>
> * Topology
> * guid/lid/IPoIB address/switch port mappings
> * link state
>
> Future neat things to do:
>
> * An interface to dynamically partition the fabric
> * Register for notifications for certain events (excessive traffic
> queueing, or error counts)
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