https://davidwhiteside.com/tags/ib/ Recent content in IB on David Whiteside Hugo en-us Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:00:00 +0000 https://davidwhiteside.com/articles/solaris-setting-ib-node-description/ Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:00:00 +0000 https://davidwhiteside.com/articles/solaris-setting-ib-node-description/ <p>In Solaris, configuring the InfiniBand (IB) node description can make your network easier to manage by assigning meaningful names to nodes. This guide explains how to set the IB node description.</p> <hr> <p>View the current IB node description</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>$ set_nodedesc.sh </span></span></code></pre></div><p>You can set the IB node description to whatever you want using the -N option with set_nodedesc.sh.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>$ set_nodedesc.sh -N <span style="color:#f1fa8c">&#39;something&#39;</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>You can reference the <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54764/set-nodedesc-sh-1m.html">man page</a> for the set_nodedesc.sh command to see the full command reference.</p>