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Administration

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Add regular expression filtering for Job Name, Project, and Job Group for searching for jobs

Presently, filtering by wildcard in LSF is only supported in two location, and that filtering is quite limited. It would be nice to extend that filtering to regular expressions and extend it to key fields like project name.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to sumit a job that that can override auto-attach and have a null SLA

Some users jobs are normally auto-attached, but there are times when they actually wish for those jobs to not be assigned to an SLA. Make this possible.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Get available VM count value from cyclecloud provider for resource connector templates using badmin rc view -c templates command

It would be useful if quota from the Azure backend is completely used, LSF admins can easily check if VMs are available in the quota from Azure.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance the Support Tool to be able to remove ZOMBI jobs and create a log of exec hosts and pgids that need to be cleaned

We had an issue where LSF could not keep up with dispatch due to high numbers of ZOMBI jobs. We would like the ability to shut down LSF and clean up the ZOMBI jobs via a Database repair to accelerate the time-to-restore of the LSF clusters.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Make Queue Open/Close/Act/Inact 'all' Requests a single event

We recently had a serious issue that required us to close/inact all of our queues, and then perform a database repair using the IBM support tool. However, when we started LSF, all but one of the queues was Open/Act again. This was due to the suppo...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Improve Job Priority Output to Exceed 1e6 as APS can easily increase Per Job Priority above that value

There is currently a system limitation that Job Priories above 1e6 do not display correctly when using bjobs -o "blah" formatted output. This is currently causing us a monitoring issue when attempting to order jobs with a very high dynamic priorit...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

About bjobs in different clusters

Suppose there are two clusters. These two clusters are being used by one business division. However, users who submit jobs are not aware of the cluster. They don't know what cluster they're using and they don't know that they need sourcing fo...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Dump configs to standardized format for cluster comparisons

We have multiple stand-alone clusters, and frequently have issues with something working differently in one as opposed to another. The solution from our side is to use something like ansible/chef/cfEngine to build the clusters, but for our existin...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration