13 Infiniband Network

This chapter provides information about the Infiniband Network metrics.

For each metric, it provides the following information:

  • Description

  • Metric table

    The metric table can include some or all of the following: target version, default collection frequency, default warning threshold, default critical threshold, and alert text.

These metrics provide details on the throughput performance of each link (port-to-port connection) in the network, an aggregation of performance for Switch-to-Node and Switch-to-Switch link types, and total throughput performance of the network.

13.1 Link Type Performance

The metrics in this metric category describe the performance for Switch-to-Node and Switch-to-Switch link types.

13.1.1 Average Throughput

This metric reports the average throughput for all the links of this type (Gbps).

Target Version Collection Frequency
All Versions Every 24 Hours

Data Source

The data source is the perfquery command and the iblinkinfo.pl file.

User Action

No user action is required.

13.1.2 Highest Throughput

This metric reports the highest throughput amongst all the links of this type (Gbps).

Target Version Collection Frequency
All Versions Every 24 Hours

Data Source

The data source is the perfquery command and the niblinkinfo.pl file.

User Action

No user action is required.

13.1.3 Link Type

This metric reports the link type, either switch-to-switch or switch-to-node.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All Versions Every 24 Hours

Data Source

The data source is the perfquery command and the iblinkinfo.pl file.

User Action

No user action is required.

13.1.4 Lowest Throughput

This metric reports the lowest throughput amongst all of the links of this type (Gbps).

Target Version Collection Frequency
All Versions Every 24 Hours

Data Source

The data source is the perfquery command and the iblinkinfo.pl file.

User Action

No user action is required.

13.2 Network Performance

This metric category contains the total throughput performance of the network.

13.2.1 Total Throughput (KBPS)

This metric reports the sum of all the bytes transmitted by each node in the last collection interval, divided by the duration of the last collection interval.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All Versions Every 24 Hours

Data Source

The data source is the perfquery command and the iblinkinfo.pl file.

User Action

No user action is required.