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Spectrum LSF

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LSF service protection for queries

Before I explain it,this feature request is very important to us because it affects the entire LSF service.If these features are provided, we believe that we can achieve higher safety for our LSF products. Suddenly there was a mbatchd load issue w...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Email notification when a job is suspended

Customer would like to receive notification when a job has been suspended and resumed either via a threshold or preemption/resumption by License Scheduler.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Improve Suspended Reasons for License Scheduler Jobs

"Presently, when a job is suspended by License Scheduler, it pushes a suspended reason to LSF as follows: ""Preempted by License Scheduler"", which customers have said is insufficient. They would rather know which project or cluster caused the sus...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Display Dynamic Priority (for project group nodes)

Ability to display dynamic priority in License scheduler for project group nodes. Currently if priority is not set on a particular level there is no way to display the preemption order, which makes it difficult to explain the decision-making proce...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Fine grain control of LS cross-cluster preemption

Prevent preemption of the jobs in remote cluster if no job slots are available in the local cluster (and, consequently, the jobs cannot start because of the lack of hardware)
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

For the job killed due to OOM, Notification from RTM

For the job killed due to OOM, Notification from RTM to user & admin option is needed. This will be really handy for user & admin. Today i do not get notification for a job got killed due to OOM thanks
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF manual run of jon should give a recommanded host vs no recommandation

In rtm when we force run pending job, the server chosen is default one, it should be recommendation from LSF sch. Also brun should have a option to suggest a server per lsf vs manually choosing one.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

RTM column names update

In the 'grid -> job details' view ($RTM_TOP/cacti/plugins/grid/grid_bjobs.php), the names of the column 'Num CPUs' and 'Max Procs' are confusing. Is it possible to rename its respectively 'Alloc Slots' and 'Max slots' ?
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

brequeue on zombie jobs please

a machine crashed on an on-premise cluster leaving many jobs in a UNKWN state. as described here [https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027518] i tried bkill -r twice then brequeue -e, but got the error message "Job has already fini...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

bhosts -o "non shared dynamic numeric elim resource"

I'd like to see "non shared dynamic numeric elim resource" info from bhosts -o. bhosts -o can only view LSF embedded resources.(as previously defined)"bhosts -o "field_name[:[-][output_width]]" lsload -o could tell us non-shared resource status. B...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration