Installation Results; Installation Logs; Openibd Script - Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx User Manual

• ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Dx Ex - perform a standard reboot
Otherwise, restart the driver by running:
After installation completion, information about the Mellanox OFED installation, such as prefix, kernel
version, and installation parameters can be retrieved by running the command /etc/infiniband/info.
Most of the Mellanox OFED components can be configured or reconfigured after the installation, by
modifying the relevant configuration files. See the relevant chapters in this manual for details.
The list of the modules that will be loaded automatically upon boot can be found in the /etc/infiniband/
openib.conf file.

Installation Results

Software
Firmware

Installation Logs

While installing MLNX_OFED, the install log for each selected package will be saved in a separate log
file. The path to the directory containing the log files will be displayed after running the installation
script in the following format: "
Example:
Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.4-1.0.0.0.63414.logs

openibd Script

As of MLNX_OFED v2.2-1.0.0 the openibd script supports pre/post start/stop scripts:
This can be controlled by setting the variables below in the /etc/infiniband/openibd.conf file.
/etc/init.d/openibd restart
• Most of MLNX_OFED packages are installed under the "/usr" directory
except for the following packages which are installed under the "/opt"
directory:
• fca and ibutils
• The kernel modules are installed under
• /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates on SLES and Fedora
Distributions
• /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/mlnx-ofa_kernel on RHEL and
other Red Hat like Distributions
• The firmware of existing network adapter devices will be updated if the
following two conditions are fulfilled:
• The installation script is run in default mode; that is, without
the option '--without-fw-update'
• The firmware version of the adapter device is older than the
firmware version included with the Mellanox OFED ISO image
Note: If an adapter's flash was originally programmed with an
Expansion ROM image, the automatic firmware update will also
burn an Expansion ROM image.
• In case that your machine has an unsupported network adapter device,
no firmware update will occur and the error message below will be
printed.
The firmware for this device is not distributed inside Mellanox driver:
0000:01:00.0 (PSID: IBM2150110033)
To obtain firmware for this device, please contact your HW vendor.
Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<version>.<PD>.logs
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