Mellanox

Configure netop-tools for a specific hardware platform and use case. Use when setting up global_ops_user.cfg, choosing a use case (sriovnet_rdma, sriovibnet_rdma, hostdev, ipoib, macvlan), selecting IPAM type, configuring NETOP_NETLIST device list, setting feature flags, or switching between platforms (DGX, Dell, Lenovo, OCI, SuperMicro).

Deploy NVIDIA Network Operator to a Kubernetes cluster via netop-tools. Use when installing network operator, setting up RDMA networking, deploying SR-IOV, running ins-network-operator.sh, generating Helm values, applying network CRDs, or troubleshooting deployment failures.

Manage SR-IOV virtual functions, PCI devices, link speed, and RDMA testing for NVIDIA Network Operator. Use when setting VFs, querying PCI devices, forcing link speed, running RDMA bandwidth tests, checking RDMA capability, managing node labels and taints, or cordoning nodes.

Run and create tests for netop-tools configuration generation. Use when running unitest.sh, validating YAML generation, creating new test cases, checking test baselines, debugging test failures, or verifying config changes don't break existing tests.

Diagnose and fix NVIDIA Network Operator issues in Kubernetes. Use when pods can't get RDMA network, SR-IOV VFs not showing, IP allocation failures, network attachment missing, must-gather diagnostics, operator pods crashing, NicClusterPolicy errors, or IPAM pool exhaustion.

Upgrade NVIDIA Network Operator to a new version. Use when changing NETOP_VERSION, running upgrade-network-operator.sh, migrating between operator versions, handling CRD schema changes, or rolling back a failed upgrade.

Start, validate, and use the NVIDIA UFM simulator container for plugin development and demos. Use when the user asks to run UFM in simulator mode, prepare a UFM simulator host, validate UFM Web UI or REST on a simulator, or deploy and test a UFM plugin on the simulator.

Create NVIDIA UFM plugins from tools, where a tool can be a UFM SDK script, an existing container image or Dockerfile, an existing plugin directory, or a behavior prompt. Use when the user asks "Create UFM plugin from tool ...", "Create UFM plugin from script ...", "Create UFM plugin from container ...", asks to add UI or API to a UFM plugin, or asks to deploy a generated plugin on UFM or the UFM simulator.