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Spectrum LSF

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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...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Allow Mass Changes of Both License Services and Clusters

In Cacti at page Console > Management > Devices, you have a dropdown option to "Change Settings". From here, you can select multiple devices, and then change select settings. It would be nice to be able to make these same changes for RTM obj...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have LSF track the number of status changes and requeues for a job over time

Basically, right now, there is no way to look at LSF's jobInfo record to know how many times a job has been requeued via either a pre-exec/jobstarter failure, or from a manual requeue. Additionally, there is no way to determine how many times a jo...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Threshold for over allocation in License Scheduler

Based on the license availability and the demand from certain project(s), LSF License scheduler can allocate more license to a project, then its define share of licenses. If limits are defined, it leads to under utilization and wastage of licenses...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 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

Simplify the Removal of a specific select string or rusage from a running or pending job

It would be nice if we simply had the ability to bmod away a reservation without having to reconstruct the entirety of the bsub -R "blah" syntax. I would much prefer to do something like: bmod --remove-reservation mylicense [options] jobid ... V...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support multiple RDP sessions on windows to support remote 3D application

remote virtualization is becoming more and more important when client is truing to building a HPC cluster. They are intending to put the pre and post simulation work on remote clusters with GPU cards without downloading the files. And also make th...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF Explorer installation permission issue

The default permissions with which Explorer server and embedded Elasticsearch is installed is hard coded to lsfadmin user and root group even after keep another user install.config. We want that the install area ownership to a user other than lsfa...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum LSF Standard Edition does not support multi NIC VM provisioning

IBM Spectrum LSF standard Edition does not support multi NIC VM provisioning using resource connector.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration