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Spectrum LSF

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Add write_time timestamp column in Elastic Search for all LSF Explore Indexes

We believe it is vitally important to know when an entry was created in each index. This will tell us if their is delay in data being collected. It will let us know if we query for a full days data on day Y and see data from day X to know if our q...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

RTM: improve filtering

when using job or license filtering, the request is looking in several fields, giving unexpected results, even when checking a hyperlinked preset object, like project: the output give results in command name, job name, server name, etc. the keywor...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: add a region field to grid cluster description to ease license services association

to ease grid cluster vs license services vs License Scheduler alert or graphs generation, add a 'region' field for Grid Cluster. Region field is already available for License services and License Scheduler servers.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: hosts unreachable for scheduling constraints

when an exec server is not eligible for a scheduling constrainte ("just starting a job recently" for ex), there nothing to monitor that situation. the only way is to detect that situation is to do a bjobs -lp on a pending job pending for that reas...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Only one lsf service can be donfigured in /etc/init.d/

Only one lsf service can be configured in /etc/init.d/lsf. If there are two stand alone lsf clusters in one server, we can not maintenance the lsf service by 'chkconfig' or 'service' commands.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

bmod jobs for per queue, or per user

Currently bmod runs per job so if there are 20000 running jobs, I've to run bmod 20000 times, one for each job. Can bmod have functionality like bkill to update bulk jobs , based on certain criteria like for user, queue, hostgroup etc ?
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Not under consideration

RTM: application profiles are not visible when not used

when an application profile is set on a cluster but not yet used or not used since a period of time (a day?), it's not visible in RTM. it will be very useful to create a mysql table containing bapp -l output !
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF: default duration for external resources

Manage default duration for external resources, mainly for license resources. Currently, default duration for external resources is infinite (job duration). Can you please give new facilities to: - manage default duration for external resources, s...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Transfering free value to another project in LS immediately

< Condition > Let's suppose,- There are two prjects in LS, prj1 and prj2.- There are two license features, lic1 and lic2.- There are two free lic1 and many free lic2 are remained.- Between prj1 and prj2, SHARE mode, 50%:50%.So, for lic1, prj...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Not under consideration

new bsub option to create chunk jobs

I would like to have a new bsub option to be able to group jobs like 'chunk' does it. Today, chunk is defined at queue level and is not flexible enough as the size of the chunk has only one value. Same remark for the run time of the jobs Thanks fo...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration