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Spectrum LSF

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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

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

Allow the user to save multiple cluster dashboard layouts by name

Right now, the Cluster Dashboard is very monolithic, you every time you go there, you have to set it up the way you like it. Yes, you can save the dashboard, but it would be nice to have multiple saved dashboards so that you can quickly obtain the...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Allow Tagging of LSF Clusters and Filtering from Dashboard and Managmenet pages

Currently we have a lot of clusters for various functions and purposes. It would be nice to be able to tag clusters by function, production/test/dev, etc and then be able to filter the various pages by tagname. It would help cut down on clutter wh...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Support or remove user defined dynamic resources from lsb.hosts file

Elim resources are used to present unique resources and values to the scheduler. Dynamic resources are not supported in the LSF simulator and are converted to static resources in the lsf.cluster file and in the lsf.shared file. However these resou...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

Two Design Flaws in Run Limit Reporting in RTM

Currently in RTM, there two design gaps in the RunLimit features. They are: 1) No way to exclude queues such as 'short' 2) Emails are sent one at a time, which in our case results in 77k emails sent randomly. It would be better to 'consolidate' Em...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Provide Minor Enhancement to 'bjobs -env jobid' Command to search and return variables server side

The 'bjobs -env jobid' command is very useful, but in our environment, the job environment can be very large. We plan to use this command as a part of our ESUB modify controls and it could be called quite frequently. Therefore, it will generate a ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Support bimages for podman

Hello, we want to enable users running podman to perform management of images downloaded by the podman. The management includes clean-up of images based on some policy like LRU or any other that user decides. I think bimages is supported for docke...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration