Settings and Configuration

Inside the container, the directory /config contains the configuration files for the NVIDIA® UFM® Telemetry application. The file launch_ibdiagnet_config.ini is the main configuration file.

The basic configurations of launch_ibdiagnet_config.ini are listed in the following table.

Section	Key	Type	Default Value	Description
ibdiagnet	ibdiagnet_enabled	bool	true	Enable/disable run ibdiagnet process
	data_dir	String	/data	Directory in which UFM Telemetry data is placed
	ibdiag_output_dir	String	/tmp/ibd	Directory in which ibdiagnet places files
	sample_rate	Int	-	Frequency of collecting ports counters data
	hca	String	mlx5_2	Card to use
	app_name	String	/opt/collectx/bin/ibdiagnet	Allow user to specify full path of the ibdiagnet application if necessary
	topology_mode	String	discover	Topology policy
	topology_discovery_factor	Int	0	Every "n" iterations, do discovery, otherwise, use result from last run if 0 or 1
Retention	retention_enabled	bool	true	Enable/disable retention service
	retention_interval	time	1d	Interval to wait before running the retention process
	retention_age	time	100d	Period to reserve the collected data
compression	compression_enable	bool	true	Enable/disable compression service
	compression_interval	time	6h	Interval to wait before running the compression service
	compression_age	time	12h	Period to reserve the compressed data
cable_info	cable_info_schedule	CSV	-	weekday/hr:min,hr:hm Time to collect cable info data

Enable BER Collection

To enable the BER collection, make sure the following lines appear and are not commented out. Specifically, the --enabled_regs dd_ppcnt_plsc needs to be added.

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            lookup_BER_counters=--get_phy_info --enabled_regs dd_ppcnt_plsc
param_4=BER_counters

Verify that the following flag is commented out or set to 0 (default is 1):

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            plugin_env_CLX_EXPORT_API_SKIP_PHY_STAT

Enable Temperature Collection

Comment out the following line to make sure temperature sensing will not be skipped:

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            # arg_13=--skip temp_sensing

Enable Grade Collection