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Spectrum LSF

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Add Additional "stats" Table Metrics

For operations and KPI management, having some additional metrics in the various stats tables is important. For our use here, it would be helpful to have the following metrics: Pend Time Metrics: (eligible based upon job class not LSF setting)* av...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

When Exporting Jobs Records Do Not Sort Them

Sorting the job records adds quite a bit of overhead to the export process.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Hardware utilization by hostgroup

Currently in LSF explorer, hardware utilization report exist. In this report one hostname can only have one hostgroup. However in practical scenario one LSF host could belong to multiple hostgroups and we need reporting for each hostgroup.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Make the default charts editable

We should have options in Explorer web to activate/de-activate/edit/modify the default charts in LSF Explorer.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF can not manage Redhat7.2 gnome-terminal job

In IBM's PMR#32285,999,760, we reported LSF can not manage Redhat7.2 gnome-terminal job.After IBM LSF support's investigation, it turns out in Redhar7.2, multiple gnome-terminal jobs share one gnome-terminal-server. To cope with this situation, a ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Request 2 license features

Here are two users. A user : bsub -R "rusage[featureA=1:featureB=1]" -Lp defaultB user: bsub -R "rusage[featureA=1:featureB=1]" -Lp short When featureA has 1 free license in default project, and featureB has 1 free license in short project, this j...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LSF should support output/error file path that exists only in a container

As of now LSF cannot handle a scenario where the output/error file path exists only in the container and does not exist on the underlying host where the container is running .For example:bsub -o <path_in_container_only> --app <my_bapp>...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

incomplete graph legends

Can you please correct the source code of RTM for next update to have a complete legend field list for all graph (ie Cur, Avg, Min & Max) for all values ?
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

Smart Memory Limit at the host/hostgroup level

Enabling the Smart Memory Limit to allow more than one value for the entire cluster. Current implementation only allows a single value of mem:swap combination for the entire cluster. Allowing smart memlimt to be configured at a host/hostgroup leve...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration