5.3 Technical Notes

libdat and libdapl provide a userspace implementation of the DAT 1.2 and 2.0
API that is built to natively support InfiniBand/iWARP network technology.

Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.
Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features,
more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems
during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.

Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources instantly, you
can eg. compare disk usage in combination with interrupts from your
IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly
with the disk throughput (in the same interval).

Dstat gives you detailed selective information in columns and clearly
indicates in what magnitude and unit the output is displayed. Less
confusion, less mistakes.

eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem that ships in the
Linux kernel. This package provides the mount helper and supporting
libraries to perform key management and mount functions.

Install ecryptfs-utils if you would like to mount eCryptfs.

The FreeIPMI project provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and
"System Management Software" (in-band) based on Intelligent
Platform Management Interface specification.

This package contains a Technology Preview for FreeIPMI. Please visit
http://www.redhat.com/support/service/ for details on the Red Hat support
policies.

gtk-vnc is a VNC viewer widget for GTK. It is built using coroutines
allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded.

ibsim provides simulation of infiniband fabric for using with OFA OpenSM,
diagnostic and management tools.

This package provides IB diagnostic programs and scripts needed to
diagnose an IB subnet.

The iSNS package contains the daemon and tools to setup a iSNS server,
and iSNS client tools. The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocol
allows automated discovery, management and configuration of iSCSI and
Fibre Channel devices (using iFCP gateways) on a TCP/IP network.

Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP verbs
library. This driver enables Chelsio iWARP capable ethernet devices.

IBM hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library.

libibcm provides a userspace InfiniBand Communication Managment library.

libibcommon provides common utility functions for the OFA diagnostic and
management tools.

libibmad provides low layer IB functions for use by the IB diagnostic
and management programs. These include MAD, SA, SMP, and other basic
IB functions.

libibumad provides the user MAD library functions which sit on top of
the user MAD modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB diagnostic
and management tools, including OpenSM.

libibverbs is a library that allows userspace processes to use
InfiniBand/iWARP "verbs" as described in the InfiniBand Architecture
Specification. This includes direct hardware access for fast path
operations.

For this library to be useful, a device-specific plug-in module should
also be installed.

QLogic hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library. This driver supports QLogic InfiniPath based cards.

Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library. This driver supports Mellanox ConnectX architecture cards.

Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library. This driver supports Mellanox based Single Data Rate and Dual Data
Rate cards, including those from Cisco, Topspin, and Voltaire. It does
not support the Connect-X architecture based Quad Data Rate cards (libmlx4
handles that hardware).

Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP verbs
library. This driver enables NetEffect iWARP capable ethernet devices.

librdmacm provides a userspace RDMA Communication Managment API.

libsdp is an LD_PRELOAD-able library that can be used to have existing
applications use InfiniBand Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) instead of
TCP sockets, transparently and without recompilation. For information
on how to configure libsdp, see libsdp.conf, which is installed in
$(sysconfdir) (usually /usr/local/etc or /etc).

Libsmi is a C library to access MIB module information through
a well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating
and parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB modules.

This package contains tools to check, dump, and convert MIB
definitions and a steadily maintained and revised archive
of all IETF and IANA maintained standard MIB modules.

A simple tool that allows system administrators to set a site-wide
default for which MPI implementation is to be used, but also allow
users to set their own default MPI implementation, thereby overriding
the site-wide default.

The default can be changed easily via the mpi-selector command --
editing of shell startup files is not required.

This package contains a burning tool for Mellanox manufactured HCA cards.
It also provides access to the relevant source code.

nspluginwrapper makes it possible to use Netscape 4 compatible plugins
compiled for ppc into Mozilla for another architecture, e.g. x86_64.

This package consists in:
* npviewer: the plugin viewer
* npwrapper.so: the browser-side plugin
* mozilla-plugin-config: a tool to manage plugins installation and update

Documentation from OFED 1.3

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.

Openswan is a free implementation of IPSEC & IKE for Linux. IPSEC is
the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide
both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you
to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing
through the untrusted net is encrypted by the ipsec gateway machine and
decrypted by the gateway at the other end of the tunnel. The resulting
tunnel is a virtual private network or VPN.

This package contains the daemons and userland tools for setting up
Openswan on a freeswan enabled kernel.

gen2 uverbs microbenchmarks

Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications; controlling
them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect works like
Don Libes' Expect. Pexpect allows your script to spawn a child application and
control it as if a human were typing commands.

Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp,
passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicating
software package installations on different servers. And it can be used for
automated software testing. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but
Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python, Pexpect
does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled.
It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module.

iniparse is an INI parser for Python which is API compatible
with the standard library's ConfigParser, preserves structure of INI
files (order of sections & options, indentation, comments, and blank
lines are preserved when data is updated), and is more convenient to
use.

setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow
you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones that
have dependencies on other packages.

VNIC ULP service

Measure socket and RDMA performance.

Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL,
syslog/tcp, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part,
and fine grain output format control. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd
and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it
suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while
at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user.

This package provides a set of analysis plugins for use with
setroubleshoot. Each plugin has the capacity to analyze SELinux AVC
data and system data to provide user friendly reports describing how
to interpret SELinux AVC denials.

In conjunction with the kernel ib_srp driver, srptools allows you to
discover and use SCSI devices via the SCSI RDMA Protocol over InfiniBand.

system-config-netboot is a utility which allows you to configure
diskless environments and network installations.

tpm-tools is a group of tools to manage and utilize the Trusted Computing
Group's TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys
securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's
software state using cryptographic hashes and more.

TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack
(TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use
of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys
securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's software
state using cryptographic hashes and more.

tvflash is used to query and update the firmware flash memory attached
to Mellanox InfiniBand HCAs.

Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities.

Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting
to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC widget to provide the display,
and libvirt for looking up VNC server details.

Helper application which emulates persistent input devices for Wacom tablets
so they can be plugged and unplugged while X.org server is running. This should
go away as soon X.org properly supports hotplugging.

XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.

yum-updatesd provides a daemon which checks for available updates and
can notify you when they are available via email, syslog or dbus.