OpenSM is an InfiniBand compliant Subnet Manager and Subnet Administrator, which is required to initialize the InfiniBand hardware. In the default mode, OpenSM scans the IB fabric, initializes the hardware, and checks the fabric occasionally for changes.
For InfiniBand network, make sure to configure subnet manager if you have not already configured the service.
On RHEL, update the /etc/sysconfig/opensm file.
On RHEL7, run # systemctl start opensm.service
On other Linux systems, run # /etc/init.d/opensm start
On RHEL Linux, # chkconfig --level 235 opensm on
On SUSE Linux, # chkconfig --level 235 opensmd on