diff --git a/PendingReleaseNotes b/PendingReleaseNotes
index ee75b317fa0..c852b2a42a3 100644
--- a/PendingReleaseNotes
+++ b/PendingReleaseNotes
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@
   equivalent to the built-in default behavior, so it has been replaced with an
   example in the CRUSH documentation.
 
+* The "rcceph" script (systemd/ceph in the source code tree, shipped as
+  /usr/sbin/rcceph in the ceph-base package for CentOS and SUSE) has been
+  dropped. This script was used to perform admin operations (start, stop,
+  restart, etc.) on all OSD and/or MON daemons running on a given machine.
+  This functionality is provided by the systemd target units (ceph-osd.target,
+  ceph-mon.target, etc.).
+
 
 >= 12.2.2
 ---------
diff --git a/ceph.spec.in b/ceph.spec.in
index 33acdc4bb08..bbc873eb70f 100644
--- a/ceph.spec.in
+++ b/ceph.spec.in
@@ -896,7 +896,6 @@ install -m 0644 -D etc/sysconfig/ceph %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/ceph
 install -m 0644 -D etc/sysconfig/ceph %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.%{name}
 %endif
 install -m 0644 -D systemd/ceph.tmpfiles.d %{buildroot}%{_tmpfilesdir}/ceph-common.conf
-install -m 0755 -D systemd/ceph %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/rcceph
 install -m 0644 -D systemd/50-ceph.preset %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/systemd/system-preset/50-ceph.preset
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}
 install -m 0644 -D src/logrotate.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/ceph
@@ -956,7 +955,6 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_libexecdir}/systemd/system-preset/50-ceph.preset
 %{_sbindir}/ceph-create-keys
 %{_sbindir}/ceph-disk
-%{_sbindir}/rcceph
 %dir %{_libexecdir}/ceph
 %{_libexecdir}/ceph/ceph_common.sh
 %dir %{_libdir}/rados-classes
diff --git a/systemd/ceph b/systemd/ceph
deleted file mode 100644
index 746234b1736..00000000000
--- a/systemd/ceph
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env bash
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:       ceph ceph-mon ceph-osd
-# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs
-# Required-Stop:  $network $remote_fs
-# Should-Start: network-remotefs
-# Should-Stop: network-remotefs
-# Default-Start:  3 5
-# Default-Stop:   0 1 2 6
-# Short-Description: Ceph is a distributed object, and block, storage platform
-# Description:    Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
-### END INIT INFO
-
-SYSTEMD_NO_WRAP=1 . /etc/rc.status
-rc_reset
-
-action=$1 ; shift
-
-# default cluster name to "ceph"
-cluster="ceph"
-
-# Shared variables by many actions
-dir_mon="/var/lib/ceph/mon/"
-dir_osd="/var/lib/ceph/osd/"
-if test -d ${dir_mon} ; then
-    lmon=`ls ${dir_mon} | grep ${cluster}`
-fi
-if test -d ${dir_osd} ; then
-    losd=`ls ${dir_osd} | grep ${cluster}`
-fi
-prefix="${cluster}-"
-
-case $action in start | stop | status | enable | disable | mask | unmask | restart | is-active | is-failed | show | kill | reset-failed  )
-    n=0
-    if test -n "${lmon}" ; then
-        for s in ${lmon#=${prefix}} ; do
-            systemctl "${action}" ceph-mon@${s#$prefix}.service
-            rc_check
-            ((++n))
-        done
-    fi
-    if test -n "${losd}" ; then
-        for s in ${losd#=${prefix}} ; do
-            systemctl "${action}" ceph-osd@${s#$prefix}.service
-            rc_check
-            ((++n))
-        done
-    fi
-    if test $n -gt 0 ; then
-        rc_status
-    else
-        rc_status -u
-    fi
-    systemctl "${action}" ceph.target
-    rc_check
-;;
-*)
-    echo "Invalid parameter : $action"
-    echo "Valid parameters  : start | stop | status | enable | disable | mask | unmask | restart | is-active | is-failed | show | kill | reset-failed"
-;;
-esac
-
-rc_exit
-