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Operations/RTM

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Move away from having to set job_end_logged on every gridjobs and gridpend poller runs

The setting of job_end_logged to 0 every polling cycle can add as much as 100 seconds to every gridjobs or gridpend run. If instead, the poller were to capture the following SELECT MAX(last_updated) FROM grid_jobs* WHERE clusterid = ? Then, sinc...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Provide "bkill -C 'some comment' jobid" Comment Message in RTM's grid_jobs and grid_jobs_finished tables

We will be doing automated killing of workload in 2022, and now that LSF provides the 'bkill -C' option, we would like that Kill message to be stored in RTM for auditing the reasons why jobs were killed by automation.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Based upon the data collected from the 'gridperf' binary, keep a table of events type type 'mbdreconfig' & 'mbdrestart' and present in RTM

This is important as we don't often time capture a restart or a reconfig, it could even be as a result of a binary that is segfaulting and being restarted by LIM. It would be nice to be able to track these similar to the table below: MariaDB [cac...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

RTM's gridparams binary misses many 'bparams -l -a' options

It's important for cross cluster auditing that the RTM system includes all 'bparams -l -a' output. Today, there are several of these options that are not captured making the auditing of cluster configuration via RTM incomplete. Having written the...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Allow RTM Benchmark Jobs to be Spawned from Remote Data Collectors

Currently, RTM relies on the Web Server having client access to clusters to submit and track benchmark jobs. For some secure locations this is not possible. Instead, we would like the RTM data collectors to be able to manage this activity as well ...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

The Cluster Dashboard "Cluster Status" Should Show Active Users and not Configured Users

Change the Cluster Status panel to show "Active Users" instead of "Configured Users" which has not relevance for operation. "Active Users" is more usable for operations and planning.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Correct Heuristics Design Bug

The Heuristics plugin trim's Project Names on panels inconsistently: 1) Trims, but does not properly roll-up statistics 2) Does not trim consistently between panels 3) Projects no way to provide Project trimming level (1, 2, 3, x, All) Basically...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have the gridalarms plugin respect Maintenance Schedules like it parent plugin thold does

The gridalarms Cacti plugin was initially a fork of the thold plugin which supports the concept of a Maintenance Schedules, but this functionality was never implemented in gridalarms. We would like to see if that functionality can be added to grid...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

Enhance database_purge_cluster.php to have an 'all' option

This --clusterid=all would remove any clusters not currently found in the grid_clusters table. So, the deletes would look something like: DELETE FROM some_table WHERE clusterid NOT IN (SELECT clusterid FROM grid_clusters) Also, the help on this ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Improve Host Automation in RTM to Move a Host that is Moved from Cluster to Cluster

Today, in our operations, we will move a host from cluster to cluster and in RTM that means that there will now be multiple hosts with the same hostname associated with multiple clusters. What we would prefer is that instead of creating a new host...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration