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Spectrum LSF

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Platform Analytics FNM loaders

Platform Analytics dataloaders need to support FNM 15.5 with an Oracle reporting database. They currently only support MS SQL.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: add grid cache directory purge feature

currently, the directory use for job graphs (specified in the "Console->Grid Settings->Paths->Grid Cache Dir" field) is never clean up. can you please add feature to purge this directory to avoid disk space saturation ?
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Roll back job submission when bsub cannot receive the jobid from mbatchd

Due to a network hiccup caused by an overloaded server, job submission using bsub returned this message which of course does not include the new jobid: Failed in an LSF library call: Communication time out. Job not submitted However the job was re...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Platform Analytics Full Support for License Scheduler Metrics andProjects

We require full metrics and reporting for License Scheduler in Project Mode. From Support the data is there but no workbook exists to view the data. We would want the same capabilities, filters and measures for License Projects as we see for LSF P...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF: unable to update host resources using bconf

Hello, 1st: not possible to update host resources using bconf although that it is documented in the man pages & bconf help. see ex1 "in use case example" 2nd: another way should be to have an extra sub command to add or remove a specific resou...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

To be able to assign and monitor specified cluster to specified user in RTM

Hi support There are 3 LSF clusters and they are monitored through RTM.Admin want to assign each cluster to several admin for monitoring.As like, cluster A to user A / cluster B to user B / cluster C to user CAnd each user can monitor for just onl...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Track total CPU time, total Memory Usage of LSF Job Process IDS

Request LSF process accounting to do something like: only show the LSF admins the top-most consumer of CPU time, and report only on that.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF: bhosts (-w,-l) status when host is closed_Adm and unavail or unreach

bhosts -l HOST ...STATUS CPUF JL/U MAX NJOBS RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV DISPATCH_WINDOWunavail 1.00 - 3 0 0 0 0 0 - LOAD THRESHOLD USED FOR SCHEDULING: .... ADMIN ACTION COMMENT: "HDD or RAID ctlr issue"badmin hhist Mon Dec 29 08:17:06: Host closed by ad...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Turn off STATUS tab in RTM - Grid > Settings > Jobs

Job Details in Grid > Job Info > shows STATUS. I would like to turn off the Status. However there is no radio button selection to turn off the STATUS tab.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Reservation Information is not collected in PA and RTM

Unable to find any data in either PA9 or RTM that would enable us to generate reports on dynamic reservations. The reservation configuration cannot be generated for better utilization of the available compute. And its history cannot be maintained....
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 7 Not under consideration