InfiniBand Radar Daemon

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Warning

This tool is using and resetting the counters of IB_GSI_PORT_COUNTERS which can interfere with other monitoring tools.

Known interferences:

• Mellanox's Managed Switch Interface does not correctly display the used bandwidth

Notice

• This daemon must run on a server that has access to InfiniBand
• Docker is not required to run it, see the pre build releases
• The web interface and API server can be found here and can run on a separated server.
• Colliding hostnames must be resolved, either by a node_map file or renaming hosts/switches.
• Colliding hostnames will occure if you are using (not manully renamed) unmanaged switches

Usage

There are two options to run the daemon:

Option 1: Use docker

Requires docker >= 17.05

Create and edit config

mkdir -p config
cp config.template.json config/config.<FabricId>.json
vim config/config.<FabricId>.json

Build docker container

docker build -t infiniband_radar_daemon .

Run docker container

docker run  -v `pwd`/config:/config/:ro \
            --privileged \
            --userns=host \
            --restart unless-stopped \
             -d \
             infiniband_radar_daemon:latest config.<FabricId>.json

Don't forget to verify that that the container is running correctly (docker ps / docker logs)

Option 2: Use RPM

Create RPM file

Download pre build releases or build manually:

# Requires docker
./build_rpm.sh

Install

sudo yum localinstall packages/fabric-radar-daemon_<version>.rpm

Create and edit config

cd /etc/fabric-radar
cp config.template.json config.<FabricId>.json
vim config.<FabricId>.json

Service

systemctl enable fabric-radar@<FabricId>
systemctl start fabric-radar@<FabricId>

Licence

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Developed by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron