IBDMTR(1)

IBDMTR(1) 💖

okay bestie, real talk: this is the manual page for ibdmtr, and it lives in section 1 of the manual under the IB Data Model Package umbrella. it's a fabric trace route tool and honestly? it's giving network detective 🔍✨. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ibdmtr — Fabric Trace Route 🦋

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📜 SYNOPSYS 📜

(and yes, the heading is literally spelled like that in the source. i'm not fighting it. it's iconic. 💅)

ibdmtr [-v][-h] {-c <cbaling file>|-t <topo file>} -s <sm node name>
  -p <sm port num> -d <comma-sep-dr-path>

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, this utility takes a cabling list or a topology file — whichever one describes the connections between the systems that make up a fabric — and parses it. then it starts following the direct route you handed it, and it prints out all the systems and nodes sitting on that route. that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

Required arguments description. (their words, not mine — these are the required ones, bestie, no skipping 🙈)

• -t|--topology <file> — the topology file that describes the network. go see man ibdm-topology-file for the deets 👀
• -c|--cables <file> — the cabling list file. it's laid out line by line like this:

<Sys1Type> <Sys1Name> <Port1Name> <Sys2Type> <Sys2Name>
<Port2Name>

• -s|--sm-node <name> — the name of the SM node (not the system, okay? the node). for example: OSM/U1 🫶
• -p|--port-num <num> — the number of the SM node port that the SM is attached to
• -d|--dr-path <comm-sep-dr-path> — a list of the ports to go out through 🌈

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -v|--verbose — verbsoe mode (spelled exactly like that in the source, i'm just the messenger 💀)
• -h|--help — hands you this help message, right here, the one you're reading 📩

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox Technologies LTD, eitan@mellanox.co.il 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie. this was IBDM 1.0, dated 2024-04-22. go trace some routes, you absolute icon 👑✨ mwah 💋