InfiniBand Network Architecture

The GSMs, GSAs, and GSIs

The General Services Managers (GSMs) were introduced in “Intro to the Managers” on page 159. Refer to Figure 32-1 on page 911. The entities involved in the general services are:

• GSM. A series of GSMs have responsibility for managing various aspects of device operation. A GSM may only have responsibility for managing the devices in a single subnet, or may have responsibility for managing the devices residing in multiple subnets.

• GSAs. The entity that a specific type of GSM communicates within a device is referred to as its respective General Services Agent (GSA). Each device implements a series of GSAs, each of them having responsibility for handling incoming requests issued by their respective GSM.

• GMPs. The GSM communicates ...