D000006-000 Rev A B-1Appendix BFast Fabric Configuration FilesThe following configuration files are used by Fast Fabric:.B.1fastfabric.confThe Fast Fabric tools support a configuration file/etc/sysconfig/fastfabric.conf. This file can be used to provide defaultsettings for most of the Fast Fabric command line options. The config file is a bashshell script which will be included by each tool. As such the file should beimplemented such that environment variables defined before the config file isexecuted will not be altered. The sample displayed below makes use of the bashsyntax:var= "${var:-value}"such that only uninitialized variables are overwritten by the configuration file.A sample file is provided below, and matches the internal defaults of the Fast Fabrictools. For a given release consult/etc/sysconfig/fastfabric.conf-sample for a sample file with thedefaults of the given release. If fastfabric.conf does not assign a value to agiven configuration variable, the default value will be used.Table B-1. Fast Fabric Configuration FilesConfiguration File Description/etc/sysconfig/fastfabric.conf Overall configuration file/etc/sysconfig/iba/iba_mon.conf Error thresholds/etc/sysconfig/iba/allhosts List of all hosts managed by fast fabricincluding the localhost/etc/sysconfig/iba/hosts List of all hosts managed by fast fabricexcept the localhost/etc/sysconfig/iba/chassis List of all chassis managaed by fastfabric/etc/sysconfig/iba/ibnodes List of all externally managed switchesmanaged by fast fabric/etc/sysconfig/iba/esm_chassis List of all chassis running an embeddedSM which are to be monitored viaesm_analysis/etc/sysconfig/iba/ports List of local HCA ports (eg. subnets) tobe used for fabric health analysis
