diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5355bac..73119be 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ SOURCES/IMB-v2021.3.tar.gz
 SOURCES/osu-micro-benchmarks-5.8.tgz
 /IMB-v2021.3.tar.gz
 /osu-micro-benchmarks-5.8.tgz
+/osu-micro-benchmarks-7.1-1.tar.gz
diff --git a/mpitests.spec b/mpitests.spec
index 1e24a3e..216bd92 100644
--- a/mpitests.spec
+++ b/mpitests.spec
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 %global intel_mpi_bench_vers IMB-v2021.3
-%global osu_micro_bench_vers 5.8
+%global osu_micro_bench_vers 7.1-1
 Summary: MPI Benchmarks and tests
 Name: mpitests
-Version: 5.8
+Version: 7.1
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: CPL and BSD
 Group: Applications/Engineering
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Group: Applications/Engineering
 URL: http://www.openfabrics.org
 # https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mpi-benchmarks
 Source0: https://github.com/intel/mpi-benchmarks/archive/%{intel_mpi_bench_vers}.tar.gz
-Source1: http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/download/mvapich/osu-micro-benchmarks-%{osu_micro_bench_vers}.tgz
+Source1: http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/download/mvapich/osu-micro-benchmarks-%{osu_micro_bench_vers}.tar.gz
 # Only for old openmpi
 #Patch101: OMB-disable-collective-async.patch
 BuildRequires: hwloc-devel, libibmad-devel, rdma-core-devel
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ MPI test suite compiled against the mvapich2 package using OmniPath
 %prep
 %setup -c 
 %setup -T -D -a 1
-cd osu-micro-benchmarks-5.8
+cd osu-micro-benchmarks-7.1-1
 cd ..
 
 %build
@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@ do_install
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jul 06 2023 Kamal Heib <kheib@redhat.com> - 7.1-1
+- Update OSU benchmarks ito upstream release 7.1
+- Add gating tests.
+- Resolves: rhbz#2220949
+
 * Fri Dec 10 2021 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 5.8-1
 - Update OSU benchmarks to upstream release 5.8
 - Update Intel MPI Benchmarks 2021.3
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 33b6987..b51da28 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
+SHA512 (osu-micro-benchmarks-7.1-1.tar.gz) = 29c7d6cbb98a0c48deac2765eb18cac0c57609d29bfd90ca66181ca496333690efc55423639cad7268493db5aeb9fb4de0528bb2cf2757f9e579dfbaf777e912
 SHA512 (IMB-v2021.3.tar.gz) = fdb1a2426b5999c58c5d15228c64a80f28f4051d438e86a132f0fc42c3cda88f0e1bbcb792316617864d0f4d07d89143a96f3824bd4806fc8cde3c2dcb1d4094
-SHA512 (osu-micro-benchmarks-5.8.tgz) = 349f4cbc768814a54add6a135fde7efde117eb108763c888879b9b3c45d4395e819f044d4705776a57f49790b4c90117ebaa86f9bf5802dc5f9f48e9f92a6a07
diff --git a/tests/run_tests.sh b/tests/run_tests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..11017ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run_tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# when running this in 1minutetip the PATH must be specified to execute
+# in the local directory.
+echo "Setting path to local directory"
+PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)
+
+# simple sanity test
+sanity.sh
+exit $?
diff --git a/tests/sanity.sh b/tests/sanity.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..45c9418
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/sanity.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# This is a simple sanity test to satisfy the RHEL8.1 onboard gating
+# requirement.
+
+ret=0
+source /etc/profile.d/modules.sh
+
+module load mpi/openmpi-x86_64
+
+mpitests-IMB-EXT Window Accumulate
+let ret=$ret+$?
+
+mpitests-IMB-IO S_Write_Indv S_Read_Indv
+let ret=$ret+$?
+
+mpitests-IMB-IO P_IWrite_Indv P_IRead_Indv
+let ret=$ret+$?
+
+mpitests-IMB-IO C_Write_Shared C_Read_Shared
+let ret=$ret+$?
+
+mpitests-IMB-IO Open_Close
+let ret=$ret+$?
+
+mpitests-IMB-RMA All_put_all All_get_all
+let ret=$ret+$?
+
+mpitests-osu_hello
+let ret=$ret+$?
+
+mpitests-osu_init
+let ret=$ret+$?
+
+module unload mpi/openmpi-x86_64
+
+exit $ret
diff --git a/tests/tests.yml b/tests/tests.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58583f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tests.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+- hosts: localhost
+  roles:
+    - role: standard-test-basic
+      tags:
+        - classic
+      tests:
+        - simple:
+            dir: .                                 # switch to subfolder. This parameter is REQUIRED, use `dir: .` for current folder
+            run: ./run_tests.sh                             # this is your test command, its exit code is the outcome of the test
+      required_packages:
+        - environment-modules
+        - openmpi
+        - mpitests-openmpi