OpenSM provides an implementation for an InfiniBand Subnet Manager and Administrator. Such a software entity is required to run for in order to initialize the InfiniBand hardware (at least one per each InfiniBand subnet).
The full list of OpenSM features is described in the user manual provided in the doc sub directory.
The installation of OpenSM includes:
sbin/ opensm - the SM/SA executable osmtest - a test program for the SM/SA lib/ libosmcomp.{a,so} - component library with generic services and containers libopensm.{a,so} - opensm services for logs and mad buffer pool libosmvendor.{a,so} - interface to the user mad service of the driver include/ iba/ib_types.h - IBA types header file complib/ - component library includes vendor/ - vendor library includes opensm/ - public opensm library includes