Changes and New Features

Feature/Change

Description

General

Added support for running libsharp_coll from SHARP 2.6.1 with SHARPD from SHARP 2.4.0 – 2.6.1

General

Added information about updatable configuration parameters in the configuration file and help menu

Network

Added support for keep-alive on connections to SHARPD

Network

Added support for asynchronous connections

Network

Disabled UCX listener as default in SHARP Aggregation Manager

AM

Added support for the non-default subnet prefix

AM

Added support for DF+ topologies with more than two-level islands

SHARPD

Added support for caching AM address

Parameter

Component

Description

dump_dir

sharp_am

Update: Changed default to /var/log

smx_enabled_protocols

sharp_am

Update: Changed default from 7 to 6 (disable UCX by default)

ib_mad_timeout

sharp_am

Update: Change deault from 200 to 500

dump_dir

sharp_am

Update: Change default to /var/log

sr_mad_timeout

sharpd

New parameter: Control timeout for ServiceRecord queries

Default: 10000 millieconds

sr_mad_retries

sharpd

New parameter: Control number of retries for ServiceRecord queries

Default: 3 retires