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My votes: Version 6.1.1

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Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

[Support Matrix] - Intel Xeon Phi SDK and Compute support on Windows

We have a requirement for Grid users for Phi card support on Windows Servers with Symphony as a scheduler. For this compute host package is a mandate. Symphony + Linux + Phi is supported, we need the same for Windows + Symphony + Phi.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Provide an option in which the harvestible server can be opened for a particular number of slots for Symphony jobs

The physical server harvesting should provide an option where we can choose as to how many slots of the harvestible resource can be harvested for Symphony jobs
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] EGO - Harvesting - Provide time based thresholds which prohibts Physical Server harvesting during business hrs/peak usage.

The Physical Server harvesting configuration file should provide a time based threshould through which we can close the harvested host from accepting symphony jobs
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] EGO - Harvesting - Include an option to input user name for which the cpu utilization should be excluded in CPU calc of Phy Server Harvesting

In Physical server harvesting, currently only the symphony processes cpu ulitization is excluded from CPU threshold calculation.However if there are any child processes created or any other processes which are spawned by symphony process, they are...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Provide a mechanism to change Shared configuration directory to different location

I had created shared configuration directory for symphony as /mnt/symphony/catelab71 which is on NAS storage Now I want to change this shared directory to to a new GPFS mount point I have stopped the symphony and trying to change the shared config...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] GUI - Deployment via PMC ignores the given consumer from the application profile.

During a grid deployment (add package and register application) via PMC the consumer, referred in the given application profile, will be ignored. Instead of using the named and already existing consumer a new consumer (named like the given applica...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management]Failover - Block original master from reinserting itself as master after a failure

Give the ability to the grid administrator to decide if original master should reinsert itself as master after a failure.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] Failover - All services including PMC shoud be migrate back automatically to master server when it comes back again.

Currenly when a master server goes down, the services are automatically migrated/taken by the failover server.But once the master server comes back again, the pmc service does not migrate back to master server.Hence the user will not be able to se...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

Assistant Manager

User should be able to dynamically change SIMPLIFIED_WEM & ADVANCED_WEM. The parameter in ego.conf should be configurable after installation. The user roles for CLUSTERADMIN and ROOT user should be configurable. The user impersonation needs to...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration