Tom Ammon wrote: > A widely-supported method for collecting statistics from ethernet > switching devices is SNMP. As Woody said, you wouldn't manage your > ethernet network any differently than you do now. In addition many many > tools have been written to make use of SNMP counters, so you won't have > a hard time finding tools, both commercial and open source. > > Tom > > On 03/26/2010 11:29 AM, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: >> Pradeep wrote, >> >> >>> With IBoE/RoCEE, the traditional SM in IB clusters is not needed. >>> Most of the current >>> IB tools rely on the SM and PM to get packet and error statistics and >>> so on. These >>> won't be applicable with IBoE/RoCEE. netstat will have no value since >>> the kernel >>> has been bypassed. So, how does one monitor traffic in such a cluster? >>> >> Some managed Ethernet switches have the ability to log into them and >> get information >> on packets transmited/received on each port and errors that are >> detected. However, >> these are typically proprietary. I am not sure about the Mellanox card. >> >> So I guess the answer is that you manage RoCCE and iWarp clusters just >> like >> you would any Ethernet cluster, with existing management tools that >> are available >> for managing Ethernet. >> >> woody
True, I suspected that would be the case. However, that means we are using a different management model than with IB clusters. Hence, I was curious if Mellanox had any tools to get say some hardware counters without going to a different management model. Thanks Pradeep -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html