Pre-Requisites

All nodes participating in Cluster System Management (CSM) must be running Red Hat Enterprise Linux for PPC64LE.

Software Dependencies

CSM has software dependencies. Verify that the following packages are installed:

Hard dependencies

Without these dependencies CSM cannot run.

Hard Dependencies
Software Version Comments
xCAT 2.13.3 or higher  
Postgres SQL 9.2.18 or higher xCAT document for migration
openssl-libs 1.0.1e-60 or higher  
perl-YAML 0.84-5 or higher Required by the Diagnostic’s tests.
perl-JSON 2.59 or higher Required by the Diagnostic’s tests that get information from the UFM.
cast-boost 1.60.0-4 Found on Box
P9 Witherspoon firmware level
  • BMC: ibm-v2.0-0-r46-0-gbed584c or higher
  • Host: IBM-witherspoon-ibm-OP9_v1.19_1.185 or higher
 Found on Box

Note

this seems wrong. ( P9 Witherspoon firmware level) What is BMC? what is host? should those be 2 seperate software values and not a ‘version’?

Soft Dependencies

These dependencies are highly suggested.

Soft Dependencies
Software Version Comments
NVIDIA DCGM datacenter-gpu-manager-1.4.2-1.ppc64le

Needed by:

  • Diagnostics and health check
  • CSM GPU inventory
  • All nodes with GPUs.

IBM Knowledge Center DCGM Page
NVIDIA Cuda Toolkit cuda-9.2.148-1.ppc64le

Needed by:

  • All nodes with GPUs.
NVIDIA Driver cuda-drivers-396.47-1.ppc64le

Needed by:

  • Needed by NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM).
  • All nodes with GPUs.
IBM HTX htxrhel72le-491-LE.ppc64le

Needed by:

  • Diagnostics and health check
  • All nodes.

HTX requires:

  • net-tools package (ifconfig command)
  • mesa-libGLU-devel and mesa-libGLU packages
Spectrum MPI 10.02.00.05 or higher

Needed by the Diagnostic tests:

  • dgemm
  • dgemm-gpu
  • jlink
  • daxpy tests

Spectrum MPI requires:

  • IBM ESSL (IBM Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Libray)
  • IBM XL Fortran
sudo sudo-1.8.19p2-13.el7.ppc64le Required by the Diagnostic’s tests that needs to run as root
lm-sensors 3.4.0 Required by the Diagnostic’s temperature tests.

Software with dependencies on CSM

Dependencies on CSM
Software Version Comments
Spectrum LSF 10.1  
Burst Buffer 1.3.0  
IBM POWER HW Monitor ibm-crassd-0.8-15 or higher If installed on the service nodes, ibm-crassd can be configured to create CSM RAS events from BMC sources via csmrestd.

IBM Spectrum LSF (LSF), Burst Buffer (BB), and Job Step Manager (JSM) all have dependencies on CSM. Whenever a new version of CSM is installed, all dependent software must be restarted to reload the updated version of the CSM API library.

If any of these packages are not already installed or for more information about these packages, please refer to CORAL Software Overview (CORAL_Readme_v1.0.dox) located in Box. In this document you will find where these packages are located and how to install them.