This information provides an overview of the servers, consoles,
applications, firmware, and networks that comprise the management
subsystem function.
The management subsystem is a collection of servers, consoles,
applications, firmware, and networks that work together to provide
the following functions.
- Installing and managing the firmware on hardware devices
- Configuring the devices and the fabric
- Monitoring for events in the cluster
- Monitoring status of the devices in the cluster
- Recovering and routing around failure scenarios in the fabric
- Diagnosing the problems in the cluster
IBM® and vendor system and
fabric management products and utilities can be configured to work
together to manage the fabric.
Review the following information to better understand InfiniBand fabrics.
- The InfiniBand standard
specification from the InfiniBand Trade Association.
Read the information about managers.
- Documentation from the switch vendor. Read the Fabric
Manager and Fast Fabric Toolset documentation.
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