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Spectrum LSF

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lsf_current_status index contains very old entries

have 2,146,965,961 documents in the lsf_current_status index, which is all the documents one shard can contain. When I query the data I see records in this index that date back 6 months. I believe their is some issue that requires fixing to as ent...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

RTM Database - Selective Data storage based up ClusterID

In RTM I have several clusters. They are identified by ClusterID numbers. There is a ClusterID which is Test or LAB cluster. I use that cluster to test LSF configurations. I run several 1000 jobs. As a result in current configuration the Job start...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Preempt real memory usage reported by a preemptable job

Memory preemption only works with the reserved memory (rusage[mem=X]) by the preemptable job. However, if the preemptable job uses more memory than the reserved, it may happen that a LSF thinks a preemptive job does not fit on the node because of ...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

badmin should not call bhosts, bqueues command

During testing, noted that badmin hclose/qclose, hopen/qopen commands also issues bhosts and bqueues command respectively. bhosts/bqueues query commands should be for end users and LSF binaries should not call this commands like bhosts etc and pul...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Alternate Job Collection parameters needed in mobile App.

In the current version of mobile app, all jobs are collected by job groups. Searching by job group or by the already existing search of jobID is unrealistic when you are dealing with jobs in the millions. Xilinx would like to see the addition of m...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM: improve filtering

when using job or license filtering, the request is looking in several fields, giving unexpected results, even when checking a hyperlinked preset object, like project: the output give results in command name, job name, server name, etc. the keywor...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: add a region field to grid cluster description to ease license services association

to ease grid cluster vs license services vs License Scheduler alert or graphs generation, add a 'region' field for Grid Cluster. Region field is already available for License services and License Scheduler servers.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: hosts unreachable for scheduling constraints

when an exec server is not eligible for a scheduling constrainte ("just starting a job recently" for ex), there nothing to monitor that situation. the only way is to detect that situation is to do a bjobs -lp on a pending job pending for that reas...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Add write_time timestamp column in Elastic Search for all LSF Explore Indexes

We believe it is vitally important to know when an entry was created in each index. This will tell us if their is delay in data being collected. It will let us know if we query for a full days data on day Y and see data from day X to know if our q...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Only one lsf service can be donfigured in /etc/init.d/

Only one lsf service can be configured in /etc/init.d/lsf. If there are two stand alone lsf clusters in one server, we can not maintenance the lsf service by 'chkconfig' or 'service' commands.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration