Disabling SHARP on Specific Network Devices in OpenSM

Disabling SHARP on a specific network switch device can be performed using OpenSM device configuration file by performing the following:

1. Define a port group with the specified network device in the port groups file. The group is specified by the pgrp_policy_file parameter in the OpenSM configuration file.

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   port-group
   name: NON_SHARP_SWITCHES
   port-guid: 0x0002c90000000001
   end-port-group
           

2. Configure OpenSM to disable SHARP on the devices of the specified port groups in device configuration file specified by the device_configuration_file parameter in OpenSM configuration file.

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   	port-conf
   		port-group-name: NON_SHARP_SWITCHES
   		sharp-enabled: 0
   	end-port-conf
           

3. Reload OpenSM.