How To Install ibacm on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibacm on AlmaLinux 8.
What is ibacm
The ibacm daemon helps reduce the load of managing path record lookups on large InfiniBand fabrics by providing a user space implementation of what is functionally similar to an ARP cache. The use of ibacm, when properly configured, can reduce the SA packet load of a large IB cluster from O(n^2) to O(n). The ibacm daemon is started and normally runs in the background, user applications need not know about this daemon as long as their app uses librdmacm to handle connection bring up/tear down. The librdmacm library knows how to talk directly to the ibacm daemon to retrieve data.
We can use yum or dnf to install ibacm on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ibacm.
Install ibacm on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ibacm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ibacm
Install ibacm on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ibacm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ibacm
How To Uninstall ibacm on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the ibacm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ibacm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibacm on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
