Administrator Success Kit

Ready to learn more about administering Voltaire Products? Then make the most of these the Administrator Success Kit resources to give you the edge.

Production Check LIst	Review our Production Rollout Checklist It describes the steps needed to verify site installation before rolling to production, please consider all the information carefully while planning your grid production deployment.
Host Built-In-Test and System Information Snapshoot	Download and use Voltaire support's OFED driver Host Built-in-Test (HBIT) and review the README document. The HBIT utility is designed to verify the correct operation of Voltaire OFED driver and enable the incorporation of system-level diagnostics. HBIT executes on Voltaire supported operating systems running Voltaire OFED driver. Download and use Voltaire support's Host system-info snapshoot this tool collect all relevant system information from versions to BIOS.
Knowledge Search	Search Our Knowledge base , Our FAQ, Q&A, Common Error, and Technical guides database contains hundreds of known issues, solutions and best practices.
Monitoring	Review the following Monitoring guides: Cluster Monitoring Guide is an all in one practical guide for network administrators. It will serve to answer questions and resolve many of the most common problems that arise regarding monitoring the Voltaire product base fabrics using Voltaire product tools. sRB20210 Hardware counters The below tables will describe the counters, sorted by directions (Eth2IB, IB2Eth, etc)
MIB Files	Download the Switch and Gateway SNMP MIB and review our SNMP MIB reference Guide The SNMP MIB Files component contains the Management Information Base (MIB) files for the product Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). A MIB is a collection of formally described objects. Each object represents a particular type of information. This information is stored as a set of MIB variables. MIB objects can be accessed and managed with SNMP through a network management system.
High Availability and Backup and Restore	Please review these best practice guides including: Backup and Restore Guide Voltaire High Availability Solution - Quick Guide
Best Practices	Please review our common and best practice guides including (More technical Guides are available on the Documentation pages) sRB-20210G – Best practice guide IPR - Install and Configure IPR Quick Guide Voltaire Cables Best Practice Guide Host - Migrating IBHOST GridStack 3.x based cluster to OFED drivers Host - InfiniBand Performance Measurement and Tuning Guide Host - Benchmark Reference Guide
Troubleshooting	Review our troubleshooting guides (More technical Guides are available on the Documentation pages) Host - Windows GridStack troubleshooting quick Guide Switches - Quick Troubleshooting Guide Host - Infiniband Multicast troubleshooting guide Switches Fabric Diagnostic Guide
Know how to contact your support provider (Contact our OEM)	customers who bought Voltaire's equipment through Voltaire’s OEM, Reseller or Partner programs are likely covered for software and hardware support through that program by the OEM and partner. Learn how to contract Voltaire OEM support.
Contact Support	To ensure the best use, reliability and performance of Voltaire products we suggest the purchase Voltaire support contract. If you have a software support contract with Voltaire or one of our many partners, Contact us for service request.