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Spectrum LSF

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badmin ckconfig with -f switch to check lsb.* files individually

When we run “badmin ckconfig” – it checks for all batch files by default.It would be great If I can check only for a certain file instead of all lsb.* files – e.g. $ badmin ckconfig -v -f lsb.queues Looking forward to such a feature.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Improve Job REST API PAC for DataManager information

Improve Job REST API PAC for DataManager information Could ask by WebService the global status of Data transfert OUTPUT from a job ID link to the RFE 122352, but could ask also by webservice
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF License Scheduler to support FlexNet Manager

License Scheduler parses the output of lmstat to "know" the relationship between job and license. The limitation is that lmstat doesn't provide sufficient information and it has chance that LS cannot accurately knows that which job is holding whic...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

lsdmin trigger a parallel restart when host is removed from lsf.c<cluster>file

lsadmin reconfig after a host is removed from lsf. triggers a mbatchd reconfig which is causing a disruption in job submission as this is a not a parallel restart . This request is to change this behavior to a parallel restart rather than normal r...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSB_MC_INITFAIL_RETRY needs to handle the case where license resource (by License Scheduler) request is not satisfied.

As LSB_MC_INITFAIL_RETRY does not handle the case where license token request is not satisfied, job is repeatedly forwarded and recalled while license is not available.As we use WAN licenses shared by multiple clusters, when the license is not ava...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF select section of bsub can support regular express.

LSF select section of bsub can support regular express. For example, bsub -R "select[ostype='RHEL*']" -Is csh
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Restrict application license usage on a per user basis - cross cluster

Provide the ability to configure a per user limit for application licenses. Once a user reaches this limit no additional workload can be executed which would result in additional licenses being consumed. The limit would include licenses consumed b...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Request Platform Analytics bldloader improvements

Request improvements to the Platform Analytics bldloader data loader so that it captures more of the information that is available on the command line. The License Scheduler documentation includes details on how to set up LS to write to a bld.stre...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

New chart to plot actual usage and total available capacity aggregated by project or queue or user against time.

Actual versus Capacity Client has requested a new chart. This chart would plot actual usage and total available capacity aggregated by project or queue or user against time. The following measures would be available:  • total job run time • total ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Hardware Utilisation Chart - Display maximum values in addition to average values

Currently hardware utilisation chart displays average cpu utilisation, average slot utilisation, average memory utilisation and average swap utilisation for all hosts in the cluster against time. All values are displayed as a percentage. Chart typ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration