NVIDIA DOCA BlueMan Service Guide
This document provides instructions on how to use the DOCA BlueMan service on top of NVIDIA® BlueField® DPU.
- BlueField image version 3.9.3.1 or higher
- DTS and the DOCA Privileged Executer (DPE) daemon must be up and running
Note:
Refer to the NVIDIA DOCA Telemetry Service Guide for more.
2.1. Verifying DTS Status
All the information that BlueMan provides is gathered from DTS.
Verify that the state of the DTS pod is ready:
$ crictl pods --name doca-telemetry-service
Verify that the state of the DTS container is running:
$ crictl ps --name doca-telemetry-service
2.2. Verifying DPE Status
All the information that DTS gathers for BlueMan is from the the DPE daemon.
Verify that the DPE daemon is active:
$ systemctl is-active dpe.service
active
If the daemon is inactive, activate it by starting the dpe.service:
$ systemctl start dpe.service
For more information about the deployment of DOCA containers on top of the BlueField DPU, refer to the NVIDIA DOCA Container Deployment Guide.
3.1. DOCA Service on NGC
BlueMan is available on NGC, NVIDIA's container catalog. Service-specific configuration steps and deployment instructions can be found under the service's container page.
3.2. Default Deployment – BlueField BSP
BlueMan service is located under /opt/mellanox/doca/services/blueman/.
The following is a list of the files under the BlueMan directory:
doca_blueman_fe_service_<version>-doca<version>_arm64.tar
doca_blueman_conv_service_<version>-doca<version>_arm64.tar
doca_blueman_standalone.yaml
bring_up_doca_blueman_service.sh
3.3. Enabling BlueMan Service
3.3.1. Using Script
Run bring_up_doca_blueman_service.sh:
$ /opt/mellanox/doca/services/blueman/bring_up_doca_blueman_service.sh
3.3.2. Manual Procedure
- Import images to crictl images:
$ cd /opt/mellanox/doca/services/blueman/ $ ctr --namespace k8s.io image import doca_blueman_fe_service_<version>-doca<version>_arm64.tar $ ctr --namespace k8s.io image import doca_blueman_conv_service_<version>-doca<version>_arm64.tar
- Verify that the DPE daemon is active:
$ systemctl is-active dpe.service active
dpe.service:$ systemctl start dpe.service
- Copy
blueman_standalone.yamlto/etc/kubelet.d/:$ cp doca_blueman_standalone.yaml /etc/kubelet.d/
3.4. Verifying Deployment Success
- Verify that the DPE daemon is active:
$ systemctl is-active dpe.service
- Verify that the state of the DTS container is
running:$ crictl ps --name doca-telemetry-service
- Verify that the state of the BlueMan service container is
running:$ crictl ps --name doca-blueman-fe $ crictl ps --name doca-blueman-conv
The configuration of the BlueMan back end is located under /opt/mellanox/doca/services/telemetry/config/blueman_config.ini. Users can interact with the blueman_config.inifile which contains the default range values of the Pass, Warning, and Failed categories which are used in the health page. Changing these values gets reflected in the BlueMan webpage within 60 seconds.
Example of blueman_config.ini:
;Health Cpu usages Pass, warning, Failed
[Health:CPU_Usages:Pass]
range = 0,80
[Health:CPU_Usages:Warning]
range = 80,90
[Health:CPU_Usages:Failed]
range = 90,100
- Info
- General info – OS name, kernel, part number, serial number, DOCA version, driver, board ID, etc.
- Installed packages – list of all installed packages on the DPU including their version
- CPU info – vendor, cores, model, etc.
- FW info – all the mlxconfig parameters with default/current/next boot data
- DPU operation mode
- Health
- System service
- Kernel modules
- Dmesg
- DOCA services
- Port status of the PF and OOB
- Core usage and processes running on each core
- Memory usage
- Disk usage
- Temperature
- Telemetry – all telemetry counters that come from DTS according to the enabled providers displayed on tables
- Users have the ability to build graphs of specific counters
For general troubleshooting, refer to NVIDIA DOCA Troubleshooting Guide.
For container-related troubleshooting, refer to the "Troubleshooting" section in the NVIDIA DOCA Container Deployment Guide.
The following are additional troubleshooting tips for DOCA BlueMan:
- The following error message in the login page signifies a failure to connect to the DPE daemon: "The service is currently unavailable. Please check server up and running."
- Restart the DPE daemon:
$ systemctl restart dpe.service
- Verify that DTS is up and running by following the instructions in section Verifying DTS Status.
- Restart the DPE daemon:
- If the message "Invalid Credentials" appears in the login page, verify that the username and password are the same ones used to SSH to the DPU.
- If all of the above is configured as expected and there is still some failure to log in, it is recommended to check if there are any firewall rules that block the connection.
- For other issues, check the
/var/log/syslogand/var/log/doca/telemetry/blueman_service.loglog file.
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