Chapter 3 Cluster Management And Firmware; Network Management And Clustering Software; Updating Firmware; Instructions For Reprogramming Over The Infiniband Network - Mellanox Technologies InfiniScale III User Manual

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3 Cluster Management and Firmware
3.1

Network Management and Clustering Software

Download and install, on all nodes, the Mellanox OpenFabric software package for Linux, Win-
dows, or other operating systems from the Mellanox software website:
http://www.mellanox.com
This software package provides connectivity for server and storage systems utilizing High Perfor-
mance Computing (HPC) or enterprise data center (EDC) applications across an InfiniBand fabric.
It also provides a Subnet Manager for simple network configuration and network administration
and diagnostic tools for network management.
3.2

Updating Firmware

The switch is delivered with the latest Firmware available at the time of production. New firmware
versions will be posted on the Mellanox firmware download page. Firmware can be updated in-
band using the Mellanox Firmware Tools (MFT).
You will need the Mellanox Firmware Tools package available in MLNX_OFED to update firm-
ware for this switch. It also can be downloaded from:
http://www.mellanox.com
The latest firmware can be found at:
http://www.mellanox.com

3.2.1 Instructions for Reprogramming Over the InfiniBand Network

To update an MT47396 InfiniScale III switch devices having a specific GUID (for example,
0x00000006660abcd0) or LID, the following are the recommended steps to update the device firm-
ware.
1. Make sure all subnet ports are in the active state. One way to check this is to run opensm, the
Subnet Manager.
[root@mymach]> /etc/init.d/opensmd start
opensm start
2. Make sure the local ports are active by running 'ibv_devinfo'.
3. Obtain the device LID. There are two ways to do that:
I. Using the "mst ib add" command:
The "mst ib add" runs the ibdiagnet tool to discover the InfiniBand fabric and then lists the discovered IB
nodes as an mst device under /dev/mst/ directory. These devices can be used for access by other MFT
tools.
[root@mymach]> mst ib add
-I- Running ibdiagnet to discover the fabric ...
Loading IBDIAGNET from: /usr/local/lib/ibdiagnet1.2
-W- Topology file is not specified.
Rev 1.7
> Downloads > InfiniBand SW/Drivers
> Downloads > Firmware Tools
>Support >Dell
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