Chapter 31. Discovery
The Previous Chapter
The previous chapter described all of the issues related to multiple SMs in the same subnet. Specifically, it covered:
Issues that are outside the scope of the specification.
Multi-vendor SM failover is not supported.
A subnet can have more than one SM.
How the SM issues requests (using SMPs).
An introduction to the SM states.
Standby SMs monitor the Master SM's heartbeat.
The purpose of SM Control Packets and how they are issued.
When there are multiple Master SMs.
A detailed description of the SM states.
This Chapter
This chapter provides a detailed description of how the SM discovers devices during startup, as well as how it issues attribute accesses to devices that have not yet been assigned LID addresses. ...
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