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My ideas: Spectrum LSF

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Track total CPU time, total Memory Usage of LSF Job Process IDS

Request LSF process accounting to do something like: only show the LSF admins the top-most consumer of CPU time, and report only on that.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Turn off STATUS tab in RTM - Grid > Settings > Jobs

Job Details in Grid > Job Info > shows STATUS. I would like to turn off the Status. However there is no radio button selection to turn off the STATUS tab.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Need to change the status of hosts from closed_Excl to ok

In the cluster we have hosts with large number of cores - 16,32,48,.. Users would request exclusive access to a host and land on these large hosts. The users forget that they have requested the jobs or keeping the host for future use and the entir...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Not under consideration

res_req parsing functions in LSF API

It would be useful to have functions for parsing the res_req strings. These strings are included in job info structure, but there is no way to extract particular components from them other than using standard C string processing functions, ie. str...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

User Mapping to handle GROUPS

Require to map members of a USER GROUP to a single userThe Groups that are currently used for Fairsharing usage see attachment
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

misc License Plugin statistics requirement

Report required to see average & max license usage consolidated over two or more license servers per hierarchical and independent user mapping fields, per license server, per feature, per user aggregated over a period of time and in addition a...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Add the following commands to the Query log, also add the total execution time to the query log output

Right now, many commands are logged to the query log, but a certain number of commands are not. Additionally, we would like to know the transaction time to process each command added to the log entry. The commands that are missing are: bswitch bk...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Remove dependency on legacy library libnsl.so.1

Most recent Linux' OS' do not provide an easy way to create a dynamic support for libnsl.so.1 any longer and instead they link to libnsl.so.2* due to libnsl.so being symbolically linked to libnsl.so.2*. The library libnsl.so.2 de-contented several...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Customize date output format for bjobs, bacct, bhist commands

Current output for date format is Apr 17 03:06:23. Customer prefers this date format: 2022 04/17/2022 03:06:23
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

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