InfiniBand Network Architecture

Chapter 35. Performance Management

The Previous Chapter

The previous chapter provided an overview of Baseboard Management (BM) and a detailed description of the BM MADs exchanged between the BM and the Baseboard Management Agents (BMAs) within IBA devices. It did not provide a detailed description of all issues related to BM (e.g., hot-install, hot-removal, etc.), nor did it provide a detailed description of the IB-ML bus. These subjects may be covered in a future edition of this book. Specifically, this chapter covered:

• The roles of the other managers.

• The BM reaches behind the IBA front-end.

• A basic definition of a Chassis and a Module.

• The chassis BM elements.

• Passively managed chassis.

• Module BM elements.

• Non-module IBA devices.

• BM MAD format. ...