How To Install infiniband-diags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install infiniband-diags.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. infiniband-diags.x86_64 is InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install infiniband-diags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is infiniband-diags.x86_64

This package provides IB diagnostic programs and scripts needed to diagnose an IB subnet. infiniband-diags now also provides libibmad. libibmad provides low layer IB functions for use by the IB diagnostic and management programs. These include MAD, SA, SMP, and other basic IB functions.

We can use yum to install infiniband-diags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install infiniband-diags.x86_64.

Install infiniband-diags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install infiniband-diags.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install infiniband-diags.x86_64

How To Uninstall infiniband-diags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the infiniband-diags.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove infiniband-diags.x86_64

infiniband-diags.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/infiniband-diags/error_thresholds
/etc/infiniband-diags/ibdiag.conf
/usr/lib64/libibmad.so.5
/usr/lib64/libibmad.so.5.3.35.0
/usr/lib64/libibnetdisc.so.5
/usr/lib64/libibnetdisc.so.5.0.35.0
/usr/sbin/check_lft_balance.pl
/usr/sbin/dump_fts
/usr/sbin/dump_lfts.sh
/usr/sbin/dump_mfts.sh
/usr/sbin/ibaddr
/usr/sbin/ibcacheedit
/usr/sbin/ibccconfig
/usr/sbin/ibccquery
/usr/sbin/ibfindnodesusing.pl
/usr/sbin/ibhosts
/usr/sbin/ibidsverify.pl
/usr/sbin/iblinkinfo
/usr/sbin/ibnetdiscover
/usr/sbin/ibnodes
/usr/sbin/ibping
/usr/sbin/ibportstate
/usr/sbin/ibqueryerrors
/usr/sbin/ibroute
/usr/sbin/ibrouters
/usr/sbin/ibstat
/usr/sbin/ibstatus
/usr/sbin/ibswitches
/usr/sbin/ibsysstat
/usr/sbin/ibtracert
/usr/sbin/perfquery
/usr/sbin/saquery
/usr/sbin/sminfo
/usr/sbin/smpdump
/usr/sbin/smpquery
/usr/sbin/vendstat
/usr/share/man/man8/check_lft_balance.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dump_fts.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dump_lfts.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dump_mfts.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibaddr.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibcacheedit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibccconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibccquery.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibfindnodesusing.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibhosts.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibidsverify.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/iblinkinfo.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibnetdiscover.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibnodes.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibping.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibportstate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibqueryerrors.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibroute.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibrouters.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibstat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibstatus.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibswitches.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibsysstat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ibtracert.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/infiniband-diags.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/perfquery.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/saquery.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sminfo.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/smpdump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/smpquery.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vendstat.8.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/IBswcountlimits.pm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install infiniband-diags.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.