How To Install opensm on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install opensm in Fedora 36. opensm is OpenIB InfiniBand Subnet Manager and management utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opensm on Fedora 36.

What is `opensm`

OpenSM is the OpenIB project’s Subnet Manager for Infiniband networks. The subnet manager is run as a system daemon on one of the machines in the infiniband fabric to manage the fabric’s routing state. This package also contains various tools for diagnosing and testing Infiniband networks that can be used from any machine and do not need to be run on a machine running the opensm daemon.

We can use yum or dnf to install opensm on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install opensm.

Install opensm on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install opensm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install opensm

Install opensm on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install opensm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install opensm

How To Uninstall opensm on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the opensm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove opensm

opensm Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/logrotate.d/opensm
/etc/rdma/opensm.conf
/etc/rdma/partitions.conf
/etc/rwtab.d/opensm
/etc/sysconfig/opensm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/825a25e6e64694d96de719b2fbbea6c2c71619
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/d171a7df308132285c73b79287289d7795a5b4
/usr/lib/systemd/system/opensm.service
/usr/libexec/opensm-launch
/usr/sbin/opensm
/usr/sbin/osmtest
/usr/share/doc/opensm
/usr/share/doc/opensm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/opensm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/opensm/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/opensm/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/opensm/README
/usr/share/licenses/opensm
/usr/share/licenses/opensm/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/torus-2QoS.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/opensm.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/osmtest.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/torus-2QoS.8.gz
/var/cache/opensm

References

opensm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install opensm on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).