ibstatus(8)

💖 ibstatus(8) — Open IB Diagnostics 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is <rainbow>ibstatus</rainbow> from the Open IB Diagnostics manual, and she is that girl. she's a lil script that tells you what's up with your local InfiniBand situation. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

ibstatus — query basic status of InfiniBand device(s) 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ibstatus [-h] [devname[:port]]...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like. ibstatus is a script 🌸 and what she does is display basic info that she got from the local IB driver. that's the vibe. she's not out here inventing facts, she's just relaying what the driver said.

and the output? obsessed. it includes all of this:

• LID 💅
• SMLID 💅
• port state
• link width active
• port physical state

like she's giving you the whole picture, no gatekeeping, periodt. 🎀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — show the usage message 🫶 (she's being helpful, let her)
• devname — InfiniBand device name 👑
• portnum — port number of InfiniBand device 🔢

ok so about that synopsis: you can pass a devname, and if you wanna get specific you can do devname:portnum with a lil colon in between. that's the [:port] situation. iykyk. 💜

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

here are the three canonical moves, fr fr:

ibstatus                    # display status of all IB ports
ibstatus mthca1             # status of mthca1 ports
ibstatus mthca1:1 mthca0:2  # show status of specified ports

• first one: no args, no problem, she shows you all the IB ports 🌈
• second one: just mthca1, she shows you the ports of mthca1 💖
• third one: you're being specific — mthca1:1 and mthca0:2, and she shows exactly those ✨

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

ibstat (8) — her cousin, also iconic 👑

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Hal Rosenstock — <halr@voltaire.com> 💌 (yes the angle brackets are actually part of it, we love a dramatic entrance)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 no notes, she ate, she left no crumbs. this was Open IB Diagnostics business, dated 2017-08-21, and that's your ibstatus(8) moment. mwah 💋 💖✨🦋