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Status Future consideration
Workspace Spectrum LSF
Components Administration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 6, 2022

About bjobs in different clusters

Suppose there are two clusters.

These two clusters are being used by one business division.

However, users who submit jobs are not aware of the cluster.

They don't know what cluster they're using and they don't know that they need sourcing for it.

So I heard that users of this division have complaints about cluster environment sourcing.

I know that clusters are independent entities, and environmental sourcing is inevitable for the following reasons.

The bjobs command send request to mbatchd. This is done by network socket programming, which sends network request to the mbatchd listening port (LSB_MBD_PORT). Therefore, after sourcing LSF environment, bjobs can only send request to a specific mbatchd, and get the job information of that specific mbatchd.

Nevertheless,

Can you create a function that allows us to view job information for other clusters through bjobs while the environment is sourced to a specific cluster?

Needed By Quarter