IB Subnet Manager MIB draftietfipoibsubnetmanagermib00'txt

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IB Subnet Manager MIBltdraft-ietf-ipoib-subnet-man
ager-mib-00.txt gt

• Cheng Yang
• cheng.yang_at_sun.com
• Carl Yang
• carl_at_topspin.com
• Edwin Tsang
• edwin_at_topspin.com
• August, 2004

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MIB Overview

• Enables out-of-band management of IB Subnet
  Manager configuration
• Enables out-of-band configuring and monitoring of
  IB fabrics.
• Modeled as close as IB management model specified
  in the IB spec.
• This is an update of a previous submitted draft,
  dated Nov. 2003.

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MIB Overview

• Complements SMA MIB to provide management
  functions in the following area
• SM Management
• More powerful Node and Port Management
• Switch Management
• Partition Management
• Multicast Management
• Path/MultiPath/Trace Management
• Physical Topology
• Service/Service Association Management
• GUID Management
• Notification and Traps

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Major Updates from Last Versionltdraft-yang-ib-sub
net-management-mib-01.txtgt

• Notifications/Traps group added.
• Compliance statements added.
• GUID Information table added.
• SL and VL mapping table removed for lack of
  interest.

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Subnet Manager Configuration

• Subnet Manager Configuration Table.
• List of all the SMs on the device.
• Indexed by Subnet Prefix.
• Creating/deleting a row has the effect of
  adding/removing a SM.
• Configuring SMs running parameters
• Admin and Running Status
• Sweep Interval
• Response Timeout
• LID range
• Default LMC
• Master-Standby Polling configuration. etc..

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Node and Port Management

• Node Information Table
• List of all the nodes and their NodeInfo per
  subnet.
• Read-only table Indexed by Subnet Prefix and
  NodeGUID
• Port Information Table
• List of all the ports and their PortInfo per
  subnet.
• Indexed by Subnet Prefix, NodeGUID and PortNumber
• Configuring of PortInfo attributes
• LinkWidth/Speed, PortState, LinkDownDefState,
• MKeyProtBits, etc.

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Switch Management

• Switch Information Table.
• List of all the SwitchInfo per subnet.
• Indexed by Subnet Prefix and NodeGUID.
• Configuring of SwitchInfo paramenters
• DefaultPort, DefaultPrimaryMulticastPort,
• DefaultNonePrimaryMulticastPort,
• Packet LifeTime, etc.

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Partition Management

• Partition Table
• List of Partitions, and Partition Membership per
  subnet.
• Indexed by Subnet Prefix, Partition Key and
  membership vector index.
• Partition Configuration Group
• Create or delete partitions.
• Add or remove partition memberships per port.

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Multicast Management

• Multicast Group Table
• List of MC Group Information per subnet
• Indexed by Subnet Prefix and MGID
• Multicast Member Table
• List of MC Memberships for each MC Group.
• Issues with Multicast operations.
• Who creates multicast groups? Implicit/explicit
  join?

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Discovery of other SMs

• Subnet Manager Information Table
• Discovers a list of all the SMs per subnet.
• Indexed by Subnet Prefix and PortGUID.
• List the status of each SM.

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Physical Topology/Link

• Link Table
• List of all the Link Records per subnet, allows
  application to have physical topology information.

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Path/MultiPath Information

• Path Information Request Table
• Allows query of PathInfo.
• Path Information Result Table
• Retrieve the PathInfo query result.
• MultiPath Information Request Table
• Allows query of MultiPath Info.
• MultiPath Information Result Table
• Retrieve the MultiPath query result.

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Trace Record

• Trace Information Request Table
• Query for the TraceInfo
• Trace Information Result Table
• Retrieve result of TraceInfo query.

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Serivce Management

• Service Table
• List of Service Records
• Service Association Table
• List of Service Associations
• Add or delete Service Name-Service Key mapping.

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Notifications/Traps

• 14 Generic notifications
• InService/OutOfService
• MCGroupCreated/Deleted
• LinkStateChanged
• IntegrityThreshold/BufferOverrunThreshold
• FlowControlWatchdogTimerExpire
• CapabilityMaskChange
• SystemImageGuidChange
• BadMKey/BadPKey/BadQKey/BadSwitchPKey
• Vendor specific notifications

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Work to be done.

• Security Considerations.
• Collect more feedbacks from reviewers.
• Pass MIB Doctors examination.?