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Workspace Spectrum LSF
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Created on Jul 8, 2019

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Availability of direct communication to the mbatch daemon from programming interface

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In our own pam module we use the function lsb_openjobinfo to identify if a user has a running job on the node or not. We do this to decide if the user can establish a connection to the node (usually the ssh connection at the beginning of a job). Unfortunately, the function lsb_openjobinfo talk to the fork of the mbatchd. So the information about the status of a job and the allocated slots could be 10s old (MBD_REFRESH_TIME ). This causes randomly errors before rewriting the pam module (see support case ID). All workarounds are not realy satisfying (check the status over 10s -> delay in runing the task, use a fake lsf.conf -> inconstency of configuration files or try to handle it by hostslist in a file -> additional I/O). So it would be greateful if one can directly talk to the mbatch daemon from the programming interface or have a parameter like NEWJOB_REFRESH to send updates to the fork of mbatchd of the event PEND to RUN.

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    |     Jul 10, 2019

    Salbem,

    Have you reviewed the following pam module: https://github.com/IBMSpectrumComputing/lsf-plugins/tree/master/pam_lsf. It is designed to block logins with the exception of users who have jobs. It introduces a delay due to the fact that NEWJOB_REFRESH does not update the status information to 'RUN' from 'PEND' and populate the execution node. This is also important for jobs that are using 'bsub -IX' for SSH port forwarding.

    I do agree with you that having a switch in the code for when you are asking for a specific host/user that we should be able to query the master batch daemon directly though.

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