IBCHECKERRORS(8)

πŸ“¦ version 61.1^20260812git975bdaf, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ IBCHECKERRORS πŸ’–

okay so bestie, say hi to ibcheckerrors from the OpenIB Diagnostics collection β€” it's the friend who looks at your whole InfiniBand subnet and goes "hmm, that's not it" 🫢


🌸 NAME 🌸

ibcheckerrors β€” validate IB subnet and report errors ✨


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

ibcheckerrors [-h] [-b] [-v] [-N | -nocolor] [<topology-file> | -C
ca_name -P ca_port -t(imeout) timeout_ms]

πŸ’… DESCRIPTION πŸ’…

okay so here's the tea β˜• β€” ibcheckerrors is a script, and what it does is it takes a full topology file (the kind that was created by ibnetdiscover, iykyk) and then it scans the network to validate the connectivity and reports errors (from port counters). it's giving "network wellness check" and honestly? iconic πŸ‘‘


🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -v β€” bump up the verbosity level πŸ“’ like, more talking, more details
  • -b β€” brief mode πŸŽ€ it trims the output down so it only shows if errors are present, not what they are. minimal queen energy
  • -N | -nocolor β€” use mono instead of color mode πŸ–€ no rainbow, just vibes
  • -C <ca_name> β€” use the specified ca_name πŸ’–
  • -P <ca_port> β€” use the specified ca_port πŸ¦‹
  • -t <timeout_ms> β€” override the default timeout for the solicited mads ⏰ bestie said "I'm not waiting forever"

πŸ¦‹ SEE ALSO πŸ¦‹

ibnetdiscover(8), ibchecknode(8), ibcheckport(8), ibcheckerrs(8) β€” go read the whole friend group fr fr πŸ’œ


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com>


OpenIB Β· May 21, 2007 β€” mwah, that's the source and the date, and this manual page ate and left no crumbs πŸ’…βœ¨ no cap 🫢

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