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Administration

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Integrate lsadmin/badmin/bctrld to work with systemd in >= LSF 10.1SP14

Starting in SP14, if we wish to take advantage of individual daemon monitoring for res, sbatchd and lim on server nodes we have to follow the following caveat: Note that once you use systemctl commands to control these daemons, do not use the exis...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Provide lsmake parallel compilation tool for aarch64 systems.

Our engineers make wide-spread use of lsmake to parallelise their compilations across our x86 nodes, and wish to use the same toolset on aarch64 nodes.
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Allow 'ssacct' to work without specifying a file path when the session is still running

Currently Session Scheduler's 'ssacct' command works without the -f option only when the Session is finished. LSF knows where the account file is when the job is running, so why can we not see the account output when the session is running?
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Email disable for mbatchd and enable for sbatchd

Currently , there is no way to seperately disable mbatchd emails v/s sbatchd emails. Means. We have set email set to N in lsf.conf , so that by default job report emails are not sent. However some users who need email can set in their environment ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

lshosts -gpu gives 'Segmentation fault'

After LSF upgrade to 10.1.0.13 and applying patch lsf10.1_lnx310-lib217-x86_64-601448.tar.Z getting error in lshosts -gpu command. We have added below lines in lsf.conf which are conflicting with the patch. We have commented the lines and checked ...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Would like a way to stop/suspend/resume a task inside a Session Scheduler job

This would be pretty useful for debugging a broken task or one that needs to be suspended for a time.
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Provide a bjobs equivalent for all active sessions in a Session Scheduler job

We need to have a way to see which tasks are running and how long they have been running to find potentially 'stuck' processes.
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

hostcache auto-delete function in the mbatchd restart

Dynamic hosts remain in the cluster unless you intentionally remove them.And the manual related to it is as follows.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=cluster-remove-dynamic-hostsSuppose we delete the hostcache file, not modify ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Have LSF Handle ZOMBI job searching using either BTREE or HASH ALGO's

Large number of ZOMBI jobs can impact very large clusters operations resulting in high backlogs and additional lost job status. Improving the ZOMBI search algorithm from Linear Search to BTREE or HASH would reduce this impact.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Make the TCP Backlog for the MBATCH and MBATCHD Query Port Configurable for Large Clusters

We have been monitoring the TCP backlogs for LIM, MBD, and the Query port for some time, and there are periods where the MBD query port becomes overloaded resulting in a higher than expected count of UNKNOWN and sometimes eventually ZOMBI jobs, an...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered