IBCHECKNET(8)

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💖 IBCHECKNET(8) 💖

okay bestie, gather round — this is the manual page for ibchecknet, living in the OpenIB Diagnostics section 8 of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. Yes, section 8. Yes, that means sysadmin business. Yes, you're gonna slay it. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ibchecknet — validate IB subnet and report errors 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So ibchecknet is a script, right? And what it does is it takes a full topology file — the kind that ibnetdiscover makes for you (iconic behaviour, no notes) — and then it goes and scans the whole network to validate the connectivity. And if something's off? It reports errors from the port counters. 🔥

it's giving "network health check but make it thorough". literally.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -N | -nocolor — use mono rather than color mode. yeah bestie, sometimes you want the plain version, no rainbow, just vibes. 🌈➡️⬜
  • -C <ca_name> — use the specified ca_name.
  • -P <ca_port> — use the specified ca_port.
  • -t <timeout_ms> — override the default timeout for the solicited mads. ⏰
also -h is chilling up there in the synopsis, just so you know it exists 👀

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com>

and that's the whole page, bestie. periodt. 💖

This lil masterpiece comes to you from OpenIB, dated May 21, 2007 — yeah she's vintage but she still ate. 🫶✨

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