Service and productivity tools

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.

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What's new

The update contains packages for RHEL 7, 8 and 9, SLES 11, 12, and 15, CentOS 7 and 8, and Fedora. This change includes an updated RSCT for most releases in addition to more generally updated content for SLES 11 and Fedora.

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
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
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/