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Spectrum LSF

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Adjust login messages in LSF Explorer for better troubleshooting

We are facing a strange behaviour with the messages for a failed login at LSF Explorer Server. There are three scenarios: The user is not able to the system on the server where LSF Explorer is installed - hence the user is not able to login to LSF...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Allow RTM Benchmark Jobs to be Spawned from Remote Data Collectors

Currently, RTM relies on the Web Server having client access to clusters to submit and track benchmark jobs. For some secure locations this is not possible. Instead, we would like the RTM data collectors to be able to manage this activity as well ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

The Cluster Dashboard "Cluster Status" Should Show Active Users and not Configured Users

Change the Cluster Status panel to show "Active Users" instead of "Configured Users" which has not relevance for operation. "Active Users" is more usable for operations and planning.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Can LSF support windows docker?

We need LSF support windows docker like support linux docker, to address my company all windows production line have different windows development environment, than IT team need maintain too many windows physical server or VM. so, we wish LSF can ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

Allow Mass Changes of Both License Services and Clusters

In Cacti at page Console > Management > Devices, you have a dropdown option to "Change Settings". From here, you can select multiple devices, and then change select settings. It would be nice to be able to make these same changes for RTM obj...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have LSF track the number of status changes and requeues for a job over time

Basically, right now, there is no way to look at LSF's jobInfo record to know how many times a job has been requeued via either a pre-exec/jobstarter failure, or from a manual requeue. Additionally, there is no way to determine how many times a jo...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Threshold for over allocation in License Scheduler

Based on the license availability and the demand from certain project(s), LSF License scheduler can allocate more license to a project, then its define share of licenses. If limits are defined, it leads to under utilization and wastage of licenses...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Not under consideration

Correct Heuristics Design Bug

The Heuristics plugin trim's Project Names on panels inconsistently: 1) Trims, but does not properly roll-up statistics 2) Does not trim consistently between panels 3) Projects no way to provide Project trimming level (1, 2, 3, x, All) Basically...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration