[MUSIC] In this module, I will cover the installation of and uses for the IBM service and productivity tools package. Now, these tools are unique to Linux on Power. To exploit the capabilities that are available from the HMC or NovaLink that I described in previous videos, there are demons that are required to run on Linux. Now, to help you understand the installation, what I'll do is I'll demo the process. And then in the following videos, I'll explain what the installed demons are and what they do. This is good background information but in all reality, you're not going to interact very often with most of these tools. They're there behind the scenes to enable the capabilities from the management controllers. So let's get started. So like I said, IBM supplies tools that allow the Linux L part to be exploited in what we call a managed IBM power server. Now, these tools are collectively referred to as the IBM service productivity tools. And likewise, IBM provides a simple process for accessing and installing these tools. The first step is to navigate to the URL that you see on the screen. And when managing Linux in a power systems environment, this is a really good URL to keep handy. And you're going to want to check periodically, like maybe on your scheduled system upgrade plans once a year, once every half year, to see what's new. The process starts with the download of the ibm-power-repo package from the link in the Start here section, and it's outlined in the graphic. Now, you want to transfer that downloaded package to the Linux L part and then you want to install that package using Yum, again, we've talked about how to do that. And then after the package is installed you want to run the command opt/ibm/lop/configure. And that command is outlined in the graphic as well. Choose to accept the license agreement to proceed or of course review the license agreement and then choose to accept it. And then check that new service in productivity tools repository has been defined in the Etsy yum dot repo dot directory as we talked about when we discuss repositories. Then you find the package that installs the tools for an IBM managed system. I used Yum info IBM dash power dash managed with an asterisk that found the IBM power managed package for me. But let's think about this, it's always easier to see something like this actually being done. So like I said earlier, let's check this out in a demo video. And when you get back, we'll talk about the packages that got installed. So in the video I mentioned that you download a file that will include your repository information for the service tools. I've already done that and as you'll see it's located here in my home directory. Now, I am logged in as root here, if you don't have root access to the system, you could use sudo as we've mentioned in earlier videos. So the thing to do now is to do a Yum install of that, IBM Power repo, RPM. And what this does is this sets up for the building of the repository's that are necessary, so that's complete. So now, what we have to do is, as the instructions indicate, we have to run this opt/ibm/lop/configure command. It's got licensing information in it, you accept the license, and then it will go about setting up the repositories. And now what we want to do is cd to the yum.repos.d and check out what we've got. And so we've got a new repository there, I could have shown you beforehand that it wasn't there. But as you can see the date and time right now is May 7 at 9:52, right? So obviously, that was just created, so if I do a cat on ibm-power-repo.repo, we see that there are two stanzas in there. We've already talked about what the repositories' look like, and we see that the the first one is the power tools. That's going to take us off to an IBM website, so we're using a base URL of an HTTP site. And then the second one is Advanced Toolchain, and it's also going off to an IBM website. And so the final step then in this is to install. Actually, what we can do instead is we repolist enabled and we can see that those repositories are there. So we have the Power_Tools and we have the Advance_Toolchain, okay? So now, we do a yum install, and I'm going to install the ibm-power-managed tools. Because this Linux L part is managed by an IBM system. And you see that it came back and it said that it was unable to find a match. Well, it would be interesting then for us to figure out why that is, because the instructions say yum install ibm-power-managed. So let's do a yum info, we know its ibm-power-managed according to the instructions and let's see what's available. And we see that the available packages to install, actually, the name contains a -rhel8. So this was a good way of seeing how you use the Yum commands to manage the Yum repositories. So instead what will do is put a rhel8 at the end and let the installation process succeed. Now, this will take a few minutes and you see the packages that it's installing, so it downloaded ten packages. And it's going about the process of installing some prerequisites so it all comes out to 14 as it turns out. And you'll see that it'll start some services, it will create some links. And it's building up the environment for the management from an HMC or from a NovaLink of this partition. You see, this is simple, you can though, if you don't have the network access capability that I'm using here to reach those repositories, those IBM repositories, you can go to the website where you downloaded the repo RPM package. And you can download the individual packages that are currently being installed on a system somewhere where you have network access, Internet access. And then you can copy them over, SCP them over to the Linux L part where you want to install them, and then you would install them. So you see that these are the packages that are installed. Knowing that we did pick up some prerequisites, I'm going to go into more detail later in the video on many of these. A document showing these steps is included in this lesson, so before we closeout this video on installing the tools, two more points. Further down the page on the IBM Service and Productivity Tools page, you'll see the individual packages group by Linux distribution. There, you can download those packages individually and install them individually. Now, this is useful on systems that don't have Internet access say. You can grab those packages, keep them in a centralized location and accessible only to systems that don't have Internet access and you're ready to go. So finally, note that these packages come with a multitude of different license agreements as well. So that could be LGPL, GPL, CPL, many, many different licenses, so be sure that you review all the licensing before you proceed to the installation. [MUSIC]
