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Spectrum LSF

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Parameter needed to block non-LSF hosts.

A lot of chatter on Lim logs due to non-LSF Windows hosts -- example messages below : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[‎04/‎02/‎2016 16:33] Walter McCollom: eb 4 22:02:43 2016 18803 4 1.2.10 va...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

change job status for recalled jobs

In multi-cluster environment while using load balancing between multiple cluster, jobs gets recalled to submission cluster due MAX_RSCHED_TIME. These jobs show as exited jobs from execution cluster. GM tracks metrics for exited jobs monthly and th...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

sp option to bsub should be refined

The -sp option to bsub doesn't simply rank your jobs against your own, but ranks them against all other jobs in the same queue. This is only appropriate in a perfect environment where everyone plays nicely. This also causes problems with FairShare...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

RTM Display distinct license checkout count

When displaying the license -> daily stats, it would be clearer if the output showed the number of distinct checkout license so that it would not be all summed into one result. Otherwise it is confusing that a user has a check out time of 20 da...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Ability to block/minimize non-lsf hosts contacting Master

Ability to block/minimize non-lsf hosts contacting Master
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF: tmp (in tmpfs) monitoring when cgroup enabled

when cgroup is enabled on both OS & LSF, it's now possible to account tmp usage for jobs when /tmp FS is in tmpfs. ("cache" value of "memory.stat" cgroup file, that can be excluded from swap using "LSB_CGROUP_MEM_INCLUDE_CACHE" parameter) Is i...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: open metadata to new object

Currently, it's not possible to add a new metadata object. Can you add a feature to create new object ?
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: allow alert email customization by user

Using the alert plugin, when an alert is designed to send email to user triggering the alert (using username and metadata email assoc), allow to send only user related records user a user template email body and subject. Also, give a way to copy a...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: a way to follow jobs history (->bhist)

can you provide a way to have similar information than in RTM to follow job life cycle: there no way to detect that a job crash on a host, restart on another. only the latest is showed in job details view.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: limits monitoring

We identified the needs of user limits monitoring, the blimits -w output accounting & per user|host|queue|hostgroup related graphs.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration