Q-Logic IB6054601-00 D Manuel D’Utilisation

2 – InfiniPath Cluster Administration
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$Id: kernel.org InfiniPath Release 2.0 $

$Date: 2006-09-15-04:16 $

/lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.8-smp/updates/ipath.ko:

$Id: kernel.org InfiniPath Release2.0 $

$Date: 2006-09-15-04:20 $

ident

 is in the optional rcs RPM, and is not always installed. 

The command 

strings

 can also be used. Here is a sample:

$ strings /usr/lib/libinfinipath.so.4.0 | grep Date:

will produce output like this:

Date: 2006-09-15 04:07 Release2.0 InfiniPath $

strings

 is part of 

binutils

 (a development RPM), and may not be 

available on all machines.

ipath_checkout

 is a 

bash

 script used to verify that the installation is correct, and 

that all the nodes are functioning. It is run on a front end node and requires a hosts 
file: 

$ ipath_checkout [options] hostsfile

More complete information on 

ipath_checkout

 is given below in 

 and 

ipath_checkout

 is a 

bash

 script used to verify that the installation is correct and 

that all the nodes of the network are functioning and mutually connected by the 
InfiniPath fabric.  It is to be run on a front end node, and requires specification of a 
hosts file:

$ ipath_checkout [options] hostsfile

where hostsfile designates a file listing the hostnames of the nodes of the cluster, 
one hostname per line. The format of hostsfile is as follows:

hostname1

hostname2

...

 ipath_checkout performs the following seven tests on the cluster:

1. ping all nodes to verify all are reachable from the frontend.

2. ssh to each node to verify correct configuration of ssh.