Chapter 5 Switch Management Tools - Mellanox Technologies Switch-IB User Manual

5 Switch Management Tools
This chapter describes the management module and tools available for Out-of-Band management
of the switch system via MLNX-OS®.
There are 4 1Gb/s Ethernet ports (2 for each management module) that get connected
to Ethernet switches which must be configured to 10/100M auto-negotiation.
The CS7510 switch system is pre-installed with MLNX-OS® management software. MLNX-OS
is installed on all Switch-IB™ and Switch-IB™ 2 based managed switch systems. MLNX-OS
includes a CLI, WebUI, SNMP, and XML interfaces which facilitate configuring chassis man-
agement features, and InfiniBand management software (OpenSM).
For more information, please refer to the MLNX-OS® User Manual.
The managed switch system includes the following software components:
• Embedded Subnet Manager (SM)
• Chassis manager and system BIST
• SNMP agent, 3rd party tool integration
• GUI
• Remote logging
• SSH/telnet
• Secured access in-band and out-band
• IPv4/IPv6 network stack
The chassis manager will give the user access to:
• Switch temperatures
• Power supply voltages
• Fan unit information
• Power unit information
• Flash memory
• Monitoring of:
• AC power to the PSUs
• DC power out from the PSUs
• chassis failures
• querying for:
• switch serial numbers
• revisions
• software version
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