How To Install infiniband-diags on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install infiniband-diags on CentOS 7.

What is infiniband-diags

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. 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 or dnf to install infiniband-diags on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install infiniband-diags.

Install infiniband-diags on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install infiniband-diags

Install infiniband-diags on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install infiniband-diags

How To Uninstall infiniband-diags on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove infiniband-diags

References

• infiniband-diags website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install infiniband-diags on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.