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Spectrum LSF

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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...
almost 3 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Deprecate License Scheduler DYNAMIC setting and support RUSAGE DURATION natively

Currently License Scheduler does not support jobs that use a DURATION on a license reservation in either Fast Dispatch or Cluster Mode. We would prefer that License Scheduler follow LSF properly in all three modes, and deprecate/remove the DYNAMIC...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 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...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Normalize and Remove SELECT "OR" clause in Effective Reservation Requirements

When a job that is pending for a -R "select[this || that]" should be normalized to either select[this] or select[that] upon dispatch so that the user can tell what set of requirements were used to dispatch the job, but this is not currently the be...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

One mbatchd connect to two blds (License Scheduler)

In our company, each business unit is using its own lsf cluster and license scheduler.We are going to have a company wide license server for a license feature A and every business units will share the license. Is there a way for a LSF cluster to p...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF Explorer flexusage data collection from remote (EU) data collector to (US)Explorer server signficantly lags

A data collection host in Europe takes more than 5 minutes to send data collected in past 5 minutes to ES located in US and cause data lagging. Expect to enhance the data transferring between continentals
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Added multicluster collection function

System: LSF ExplorerActor: system adminThe only tool that can report when configuring a multi-cluster by expanding the cluster is currently Explorer.Currently, customers are operating in a single cluster size with more than 8,000 nodes, and they a...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Requirement Request

Add the active and finish index interactive job data collection.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

bkill option to filter jobs based on state

Specific use case being a desire to kill all pending jobs, but not impact running nor suspended jobs.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration