Management and configuration tools

Use the smc-tools package, distribution tools, and generic PCI management commands to manage and configure network adapter PCI functions.

smc-tools package

IBM® provides the smc-tools package to manage SMC-related PCI functions on Linux® on IBM Z® and LinuxONE, including the network adapter PCI functions.

Install the package that is included in your distribution. If you distribution does not include the package, you can obtain the latest version from GitHub at github.com/ibm-s390-linux/smc-tools.

PCI tools

You can use common PCI tools like lspci to work with network adapter PCI functions.

IBM provides the zpcictl command for handling defective PCI functions on IBM Z. Depending on your distribution, the package that includes this command might be called s390-tools or s390utils.

Network configuration

You can use common network management tools like ip and ethtool for exploring your network and network interfaces.

To persistently configure your network, use the network management tool of your distribution.