I cannot use sdkmanager to install DOCA

Infrastructure & Networking BlueField
1

I am following the document to install DOCA by using sdkmanager.
I am using a r7525 type of machine from cloudlab.
The hardware settings are:
CPU: two 32-core AMD 7542 at 2.9GHz
RAM: 512GB ECC Memory(16 X 32 GB 3200MHz DDR4)
DISK: One 2TB 7200 RPM 6G SATA HDD
NIC: Dual-port Mellanox ConnectX-5 25 Gb NIC (PCIe v4.0)
NIC:Dual-port Mellanox BlueField2 100 Gb SmartNIC
GPU:Two NVIDIA GV100GL (Tesla V100S PCIe 32GB)

The software settings are:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Linux 5.4.0-100-generic
sdkmanager version: 1.9.0.10816 / 1.9.3.10904

I tried with both old/new version of sdkmanager. None of them can work.

The command to install DOCA:
sdkmanager --cli install --logintype devzone --product DOCA --host --target BLUEFIELD2_DPU_TARGETS --targetos Linux --version 1.5 --flash all

Error Message:
No such product ‘DOCA’. Please select one of the following products: Jetson

I wonder whether there are some updates to sdkmanager and whether it does not support DOCA installation any more.

Thanks!

2

Please follow DOCA maunall to install.

https://docs.nvidia.com/doca/sdk/installation-guide-for-linux/index.html#installing-software-on-host

3

Hi @xiaofengl, does it mean that sdkmanager is not working properly?

4

Sure. I have the same question with yavtul. Does it mean that sdkmanager cannot be used to install DOCA?

Thanks

5

SDKManager can install DOCA. I have been using cli method with sdkmanager to install both 1.5.1 and 2.0.2 of DOCA.

Here is command line I use…

DOCA 2.0.2:

sdkmanager --cli install --logintype devzone --product DOCA --targetos Linux --host --target BLUEFIELD2_DPU_TARGETS --flash all --version 2.0.2

-or-

DOCA 1.5.1

sdkmanager --cli install --logintype devzone --product DOCA --targetos Linux --host --target BLUEFIELD2_DPU_TARGETS --flash all --version 1.5.1

My host is Rocky Linux 8.6

Does this help?

-J

1 Like
6

Hi,

Thanks for the answer. I wonder what is the version of your sdkmanager. And have you ever installed on ubuntu using the same cli?

Thanks

7

Hi cxinyic

The version I am using is:

[VH02 ~]$ sdkmanager --ver
1.9.2.10899
[VH02 ~]$

Originally I installed:

sdkmanager_1.9.1-10844.x86_64.rpm

It then updated itself to the version listed above.

Though we run Rocky mostly here, I did install all of this on Ubuntu while troubleshooting an unrelated issue to ensure that using Rocky wasnt the cause of my issue (it wasn’t). The install on Ubuntu worked fine using the same command line I posted earlier.

-J

8

@IamAries do you have early access or something like that? because I got the same error, only jetson is available. I tried using gui and cli but I see only the one platform and can’t choose DOCA

sdkmanager --cli downloadonly --staylogin true --logintype devzone --product DOCA --targetos Linux --host --target BLUEFIELD2_DPU_TARGETS --flash all --version 2.0.2

Authenticating with NVIDIA server…
Login succeeded.
Loading user information…
User information loaded successfully.
Loading server data…
Server data loaded successfully.
No such product ‘DOCA’. Please select one of the following products: Jetson

sdkmanager --ver
1.9.2.10899

9

@yavtuk

We do have early access. I had assumed you and original poster as well as I thought I saw in other messages you are on DOCA 2.0.2? How did you install your current setup - manually?

What do you get if you run:

[VH02 ~]$ sdkmanager --cli --product DOCA --showallversions --version 2.0.2 --targetos linux --host

For me I get many versions of JetPack and DOCA. The list is a bit long to post, but do you not have any DOCA versions appearing?

-J

10

I think the early access is the reason. I installed it manually.

sdkmanager --cli --product DOCA --showallversions --version 2.0.2 --targetos linux --host
Authenticating with NVIDIA server…
Login succeeded.
Loading user information…
User information loaded successfully.
Loading server data…
Server data loaded successfully.
No ‘DOCA’ product is installed on your host.

11

@xiaofengl Can you confirm that use is only possible with a paid subscription?

12

That is curious indeed. I would think that if you didn’t have access, it would not let you download the DOCA sdk by any method (not just block sdkmanager).

Anyway, shall be interesting to know what the answer is.

-J

13

I followed the manual installation and it can work. Thanks. But still, I am curious why the sdkmanager cannot work.