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Spectrum LSF

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Test and provide documentation on using Vertica native load balancer for PA 9.1.4

The IPVS load balancer is not supported for Vertica 7.2.3 which is embedded in PA 9.1.4, only the Vertica native load balancer. In some cases we have seen high loads on the Vertica database which has stopped the spread daemon on a node and occasio...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: monitor advance reservation

like for hostgroups, monitor system metrics like cpu, mem, swap, etc, number of jobs, of users, etc of of advance reservation created using 'brsvadd', visible using 'brsvs -l' comand
over 7 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.
over 7 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...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

jobs dispatched to hostgroups outside resource pool

jobs submitted using application profile and attached to specific SLA and resource pool getting submitted to a different hostgroup
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Add jexport command to PPM 9.1.3

just upgraded to PPM 9.1.3 and need an easier way to manipulate the flows from command line
almost 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.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Preserving job array conditions in multicluster

Job array conditions are widely used on our machines to manage when jobs are dispatched. Certain workflows require specific job stepping. Job array conditions aren't present in a multicluster environment. Our workaround involves submitting a job i...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Lock LSF daemon's memory pages to prevent swapping them out

As part of the discussion about the which NICE value should LSF daemon use, another idea to improve LSF resilience and consistency came up. See the PMR related. LSF daemons should never send pages to swap. When this happens, and a fix pack replaci...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration