Using AI to confirm a wrongly cabled Exadata switch – or how to fix verify_roce_cables.py script for Python3.
One of the preparation steps when installing an Exadata X10M is to verify that the cabling of the RoCE switches is correctly done. The next step is to upgrade the Cisco switches with the latest firmware. During my intervention for Tradeware at the customer, the first didn’t work as the provided script is not compatible with Python3 and the latter complained about wrong cabling.
Here I show how studied the wrong cabling of the X10M switches and how I use Claude.ai (ChatGPT and other AI tools probably also work) to quickly fix the Python script provided by Oracle.
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