IBCHECKERRORS(8)
β¨ IBCHECKERRORS π
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" π«Ά
πΈ NAME πΈ
ibcheckerrors β validate IB subnet and report errors β¨
π SYNOPSIS π
ibcheckerrors [-h] [-b] [-v] [-N | -nocolor] [<topology-file> | -C
ca_name -P ca_port -t(imeout) timeout_ms]
π DESCRIPTION π
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 π
π OPTIONS π
-vβ bump up the verbosity level π’ like, more talking, more details-bβ brief mode π it trims the output down so it only shows if errors are present, not what they are. minimal queen energy-N|-nocolorβ use mono instead of color mode π€ no rainbow, just vibes-C<ca_name>β use the specifiedca_nameπ-P<ca_port>β use the specifiedca_portπ¦-t<timeout_ms>β override the default timeout for the solicited mads β° bestie said "I'm not waiting forever"
π¦ SEE ALSO π¦
ibnetdiscover(8), ibchecknode(8), ibcheckport(8), ibcheckerrs(8) β go read the whole friend group fr fr π
π AUTHOR π
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 π β¨ no cap π«Ά
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