Information about the package, opensm, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The opensm package is designed for, OpenIB InfiniBand Subnet Manager and management utilities.
Package Name:
opensm
Summary:
OpenIB InfiniBand Subnet Manager and management utilities
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.3.17
Release:
1.el6
Size:
569 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 or BSD
Control the opensm package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install opensm
This command will install opensm on the server.
yum remove opensm
This command will un-install opensm on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove opensm, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove opensm
This command will un-install opensm on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove opensm when using the -y flag.
yum update opensm
This command will update opensm to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove opensm, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update opensm
This command will update opensm to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove opensm when using the -y flag.
yum info opensm
This command will show you core information about the opensm package.
yum deplist opensm
This command will show you the dependencies for opensm. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update opensm
This command will check if there is an update waiting on opensm. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.