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Setting Up the Test
Testing with the User Interface
CATC IBTrainer InfiniBand Exerciser, August 2002
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Setting Up the Test
Using pre-defined packets
The software is delivered with three sample packets that you can use for
your tests:
• Sample SMP packet, which is a Subnet Management Packet
This packet is set up so that the IBTrainer queries the NodeInfo
property of the DUT.
• Sample GMP packet, which is a General Management Packet.
Each node may contain additional management agents (besides the
Subnet Management Agent which is transmitted with the SMPs)
referred to as General Services Agent (GSA).
As specified in the InfiniBand specification, SMP packets are used for
managing communication between nodes, GMP packets (General
Management Packets) are needed for the communication with the
GSA. You can verify the GSA of a node using GMPs just like you verify
the SMA using the SMPs.
This GMP sample packet is set up to query the performance
management of the DUT for PortSamplesControl.
• Sample IB packet, which is a standard InfiniBand packet
This packet is set up with the opcode RC SEND only.
You can send one of these three packets directly to the DUT or you can
customize them before sending. “Configuring Outgoing Packets to Be
tells you how.
Creating packets from scratch
You can also create a packet from scratch. Click the button on the
toolbar corresponding to the type of packet that you want to create: The
software prompts you to name the packet and places the packet in the
Available Packet
list.