How To Install system-storage-manager on CentOS 8

system-storage-manager is A single tool to manage your storage

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-storage-manager on CentOS 8.

What is `system-storage-manager`

System Storage Manager provides an easy to use command line interface to manage your storage using various technologies like lvm, btrfs, encrypted volumes and more. In more sophisticated enterprise storage environments, management with Device Mapper (dm), Logical Volume Manager (LVM), or Multiple Devices (md) is becoming increasingly more difficult. With file systems added to the mix, the number of tools needed to configure and manage storage has grown so large that it is simply not user friendly. With so many options for a system administrator to consider, the opportunity for errors and problems is large. The btrfs administration tools have shown us that storage management can be simplified, and we are working to bring that ease of use to Linux file systems in general. You should install the ssm if you need to manage your storage with various technologies via a single unified interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install system-storage-manager on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install system-storage-manager.

Install system-storage-manager on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install system-storage-manager using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install system-storage-manager

Install system-storage-manager on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install system-storage-manager using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install system-storage-manager

How To Uninstall system-storage-manager on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the system-storage-manager package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove system-storage-manager

system-storage-manager Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ssm
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__/misc.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__/misc.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__/problem.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/__pycache__/problem.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/btrfs.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/btrfs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/crypt.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/crypt.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/lvm.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/lvm.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/md.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/md.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/multipath.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/multipath.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/template.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/__pycache__/template.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/btrfs.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/crypt.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/lvm.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/md.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/multipath.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/backends/template.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/misc.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ssmlib/problem.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/system_storage_manager-1.4-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/share/doc/system-storage-manager
/usr/share/doc/system-storage-manager/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/system-storage-manager/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/system-storage-manager/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/system-storage-manager/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/system-storage-manager/README
/usr/share/man/man8/ssm.8.gz

References

system-storage-manager website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-storage-manager on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.