README

Installing Intel® RSTe with Linux OS* SSI API library on RHEL 7.3+ and
SLES 12 SP3 from source code.

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Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. License
3. Dependences
4. Installing Intel® RSTe with Linux OS* SSI Library API

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1. Overview

The RAID Management API allows complete management of the Intel Storage
systems based on a RAID controller included in the Intel chipset.
This API allows end user to manage these systems from their proprietary
RAID management application which simplifies tasks associated with
the RAID system management.

The RAID API is developed as Linux shared library (so). This library
manages and configures the Intel RAID driver using mdadm application
and issues IOCTL calls to get some information from the OS.
The API exposed to the RAID Management Application can be executed
via function calls.

NOTE: mdadm configuration file /etc/mdadm.conf will be overwritten
when library is loaded. Previous version is saved as /etc/mdadm.conf.original

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2. License

Copyright 2011 - 2017 Intel Corporation

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors
   may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
   without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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3. Dependences

To build SSI API library from source code the package sg3_utils-devel
is required.

For correct functioning mdadm version 4.0 minimum is required.
The mdadm source code is available to download from
http://git.neil.brown.name/?p=mdadm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/mdadm-4.0

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4. Installing Intel® RSTe with Linux OS* SSI Library API

Unpack SSI sources, go to the created directory and run commands:
./autogen.sh
./configure --libdir='${prefix}/lib64'

Run "make" and then "make install"

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