Information about the package, smaclient, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The smaclient package is designed for, Provides access to z/VM System Management functions.
Package Name:
smaclient
Summary:
Provides access to z/VM System Management functions
Description:
smaclient is a tool which provides a line-mode interface to the z/VM System Management API (SMAPI) for most Unix-compatible systems such as Linux. Smaclient can exercise all the VM management interfaces to create, modify and destroy virtual machines without ever logging into z/VM.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1
Release:
4.el6
Size:
44 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
Artistic 2.0
Control the smaclient package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install smaclient
This command will install smaclient on the server.
yum remove smaclient
This command will un-install smaclient on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove smaclient, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove smaclient
This command will un-install smaclient 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 smaclient when using the -y flag.
yum update smaclient
This command will update smaclient to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove smaclient, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update smaclient
This command will update smaclient 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 smaclient when using the -y flag.
yum info smaclient
This command will show you core information about the smaclient package.
yum deplist smaclient
This command will show you the dependencies for smaclient. 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 smaclient
This command will check if there is an update waiting on smaclient. 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.