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Spectrum LSF

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Define ES path.data at install or remind to set it after install.

When install LSF Explorer server + ElasticSearch, there's no way to define ES' path.data parameter and the parameter always set to default, which may not be the correct location. At least in installation guide or after installation completed, remi...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 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...
over 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
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Limiting the query data size in LSF

We recently experienced problems with mbatchd due to the size of the query data. The following is IBM support team's comments. Based on query_info.log last Saturday, I saw many lines with same data size during 1 second. Each line indicates 1 query...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

To include host level parameters in lsf_job_acct index

Currently the cpu_factor and cputime given in lsf_job_acct index is for a given job id. However if the job is executed on multi-hosts having different cpu factors, then it is not possible to calculate number of cores used x cputime per host x cpuf...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Allow to increase the font size in explorer chart

As suggested by IBM support in the given Support case ID that it is possible to increase the chart size in explorer. However it is currently no option to increase the font size in charts of explorer.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration