ipmctl is a utility for configuring and managing Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules (DCPMM).

It supports functionality to:

• Discover DCPMMs on the platform.
• Provision the platform memory configuration.
• View and update the firmware on DCPMMs.
• Configure data-at-rest security on DCPMMs.
• Track health and performance of DCPMMs.
• Debug and troubleshoot DCPMMs.

ipmctl refers to the following interface components:

• libipmctl: An Application Programming Interface (API) library for managing DCPMMs.
• ipmctl: A Command Line Interface (CLI) application for configuring and managing DCPMMs from the command line.

01.00.00.xxxx stable branch

02.00.00.xxxx development branch, not for production

Some distributions include ipmctl allowing installation via their package manager. For example (on Fedora):

dnf install ipmctl

This will update the required dependencies.

For systems that cannot reach the Internet use another system to download the following rpms required to install ipmctl and then copy them to the original system (e.g. via thumb drive).

ipmctl.rpm, libipmctl.rpm, libsafec.rpm, ndctl, ndctl-libs, json-c.rpm

Run

rpm –ivh *.rpm

CentOS and RHEL systems maybe able to use an EPEL package found at: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ipmctl

OpenSUSE and SLES packages can be found at: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/hardware:nvdimm/ipmctl

Ubuntu releases can be found at: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipmctl

ipmctl depends on libndctl (ndctl-libs).

It can be found here https://github.com/pmem/ndctl if not available as a package.

Ipmctl has dependency on libsafec-devel, libndctl-devel and rubygem-asciidoctor

• copr/jhli repo has libipmctl and its dependency, libsafec-devel.
  • cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

  wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jhli/ipmctl/repo/epel-7/jhli-ipmctl-epel-7.repo
  wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jhli/safeclib/repo/epel-7/jhli-safeclib-epel-7.repo

  * This should bring down both libipmctl and its dependency, libsafec-devel and 

• epel repos has rubygem-asciidoctor
  • get the epel repos

 yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

• Enable extra packages in RHEL for ndctl-devel or any other dependencies
  • EPEL packages may depend on packages from these repositories:

# subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"  --enable "rhel-ha-for-rhel-*-server-rpms"

• Install the prerequisite packages

sudo yum install ndctl ndctl-libs ndctl-devel libsafec rubygem-asciidoctor

• Either Follow ipmctl make, rpmbuild instructions, or install the ipmctl package

The latest stable Linux kernel version available is recommended.

ndctl package is required.

All other dependencies are widely available.

mkdir output && cd output
cmake -DRELEASE=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/ ..
make -j all
sudo make install

build artifacts can be found in output/release

To build RPMs:

./rpmbuild.sh xx.xx.xx.xxxx

The RPMs will be in output/rpmbuild/RPMS/

Install Visual Studio 2017 (or newer). Be sure to install optional component:

• Workloads -> Desktop Development with C++
• Individual Components -> Compilers, build tools, and runtimes -> Visual C++ tools for CMake

Open as a CMake project. See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-projects-in-visual-studio