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ibsnmp

InfiniBand networks, as other networks, need to be monitored and managed for administrator and development needs, the usage of this technology become more widespread; it’s involved in bigger clusters and high-performance networking, therefore, the need for such a tool becomes more essential. ... [More] Besides, a lot of information about InfiniBand traffic is stored in the hardware, this is derived from its architecture which implements most of the layers in hardware, and this information is usually not exposed to the application layer, which makes the task to retrieve this information more difficult without a tool designed for this purpose. To achieve this goal, we used in this project a standard network management protocol called SNMP, because this protocol is one of the most popular solutions for network monitoring, there are many monitors which relies on this protocol to offer to the user a friendly interface such as IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView, for the same reason, collecting information from InfiniBand devices and other devices (CPU, memory, NIC…) , can be done using the same tool. So far, there was no such a tool for InfiniBand network management, although it was invented and used since 1996. The tool we present in this project is the only one of its kind in this field. [Less]