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Spectrum LSF

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candidate host pending reason

It's about pending reason hostname. Current pending reason as below. These 3 hosts are not in host group of this queue, but they are in candidate host list. PENDING REASONS: Candidate host pending reasons (18 of 7574 hosts): Job slot limit reached...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

value of 'Execution Host' column of the grid_bjobs view

Display the current job host topology in the 'Execution Host' column of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view: x*host1,y*host2,z*host3:...) instead of MaxSlot@host1 where host1 is the 1st host assigned to the job where the initial command r...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Unable to access array object of Explorer Data in ES

In Explorer Elasticsearch data, most of the indexes have used array objects. For example exec_host_list array in lsf_job_acct index and there are plenty of others indexes as well where array objects are used.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Allow `lsadmin reconfig`to run in batch mode for only the master candidate hosts

`lsadmin reconfig` cannot be run in unattended mode only on master and master candidate hosts. It would be nice to have such an option. `lsadmin limrestart pf host1 host2` is not an acceptable replacement for this functionality. For details see "U...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 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

To add missing host level parameters in lsf_jobs_active and lsf_jobs_pending

Please add following execution host parameters in lsf_jobs_active and lsf_jobs_pend index Host_name, cpu_factor, host_type, host_model, host_group. These parameters are present in hostproperties.xml and hostgroup.xml loaders but these are not enab...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Add missing fields in lsf_jobs_pendingreason index

Please add the following missing fields in lsf_job_pendingreason : pending_reason_level, pending_state, resource_group
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

LSF Explorer support for multiple clusters with the same name

Customer has multiple clusters with the same cluster name. Changing LSF cluster names to be unique is not an option. Their environment is large. Other products in the LSF family support this. LSF_LIC_SCHED_CLUSTER_ALIAS addresses the concern for L...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 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...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Aggregate user licence usage graphs and license project usage graphs in RTM

We request an automation that can aggregate the license usage graphs of a user for every license service defined. For example, if there are 3 license services defined, by default 3 license usage graphs are generated for each user. There is no way ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration