IBM Power Systems service and productivity tools
The service and productivity tools are available in a YUM repository that you can use to download and install all recommended packages for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER (SLES), or Fedora Linux distribution. These packages include additional POWER specific functionality for cluster environments, serviceability, and RAS for the Linux on Power environment.
What's new
Start here
Start by manually downloading and installing the ibm-power-repo package. After installing the package, you need to run /opt/ibm/lop/configure and agree to the license. Once that is done you can install a helper package, such as ibm-power-managed, or pick and choose which packages to install.
Linux on Power includes three separate operating system environments: HMC / IVM managed systems (managed systems), standalone systems without a management console (non-managed), and KVM guests.
You should read the importance notices before you begin your install. They include urgent and timely information that could help you avoid problems during the installation of Linux on IBM Systems.
Available packages
*Not all packages are available on all distributions*
Package name | Description |
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ibm-power-repo |
Linux on IBM Power platform Tools Repository Initialization Sets up IBM Linux on Power repositories for service, productivity, and development tools. Start by manually downloading and installing this package. |
ibm-power-managed |
IBM POWER Serviceability Tools for Managed Systems and Blade Install the recommended additional software packages for IBM Power Systems managed by an HMC or IVM. Enables additional RAS capabilities as well as virtualization capabilities, such as DLPAR and Live Partition Mobility. |
ibm-power-nonmanaged |
IBM POWER Serviceability Tools for Non-managed Systems Install the recommended additional software packages for KVM guests and non-managed Power Systems that don't use an HMC or IVM. |
ibm-power-kvmguest |
IBM POWER Serviceability Tools for KVM Guests Systems Install the recommended additional software packages for KVM guests systems on Power architecture. |
DynamicRM |
DynamicRM (DRM) is a resource manager that provides a mechanism for receiving certain signals from an attached HMC. It allows the HMC to initiate dynamic reconfiguration operations, concurrent firmware updates, and certain shutdown or restart operations, and prints Capacity on-demand messages to the partition console. |
devices.chrp.base.ServiceRM |
Service RM The ServiceRM is an IBM resource manager that provides resource classes for IBM.ServiceFocalPoint and IBM.ServiceEvent. It provides the function to generate Service Events, detect them, filter them, modify and prune them. |
rsct.basic |
Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology - Basic rsct.basic provides the Group Services and Topology Services components. |
rsct.core |
Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology rsct.core provides all the Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) functionality and infrastructure needed to monitoring and manage one or more Linux systems. RMC provides a flexible and extensible system for monitoring numerous aspects of a system and allowing customized responses to events that are detected. |
rsct.core.utils |
Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology - Utilities rsct.core.utils provides support functions for Monitoring and Control (RMC) functionality and infrastructure needed to monitoring and manage one or more Linux systems. |
rsct.opt.storagerm |
Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology - StorageRM rsct.StorageRM provides StorageRM |
src |
System Resource Controller SRC provides a facility for managing daemons on a system. It provides a standard command interface for defining, undefining, starting, stopping, querying status and controlling trace for daemons. |
esagent.pLinux |
ESA for PowerLinux Electronic Service Agent for PowerLinux Systems. |
IBMinvscout |
IBM inventory utilities for Linux IBMinvscout provides hardware inventory management. This version of the IBMinvscout is rewritten from scratch by using libvpd APIs. |
ServiceReport |
Service Report tool ServiceReport investigates the incorrect First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) configuration and optionally repairs the incorrect configuration. |
nmon |
nmon is a systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool, which provides information about CPU, disks, network, etc., all in one view. nmon is a GPLv3 package with the source available in the src directory for each distribution and version. |
Available distributions
The following table lists the available distributions, along with providing a direct link to the packages in case you need to create a local or satellite repository for systems that do not otherwise have direct access. For those repositories, you might need to manually download the key included with those packages in repodata/repomd.xml.key and import it into your rpm database.
For systems with internet access, installing the ibm-power-repo rpm automatically sets up your system to use these repositories and is the recommended way to configure a system to access the repositories directly.
Distribution | Links |
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CentOS 8 | ppc64le package |
CentOS 7 | ppc64le package, ppc64 package, and ppc64le POWER9 package |
Fedora | ppc64le package |
RHEL 9 | ppc64le package |
RHEL 8 | ppc64le package |
RHEL 7 | ppc64le package, ppc64 package, and ppc64le for POWER9 package |
RHEL 6 | ppc64 package |
SLES 15 | ppc64le package |
SLES 12 | ppc64le package |
SLES 11 | ppc64 package |
Ubuntu | RSCT PPAs |
Lifecycle
Updates to the packages in this repository will be provided for the duration of the general support life of the associated Linux distribution. Major versions of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are supported for 10 years.
Listed below is the planned end of support dates for the IBM Power Systems service and productivity tools for the current major releases of RHEL and SLES.
- RHEL 7 - June 2024
- RHEL 8 - May 2029
- RHEL 9 - May 2032
- SLES 12 - Oct 2024
- SLES 15 - July 2028
More details about the support lifecycle for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can be found at the following links:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
https://www.suse.com/lifecycle/