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Spectrum LSF

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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

RTM: monitoring of multi nodes jobs

For LSF jobs submitted using "bsub ... -n x ...-R "... span[ptile=y]" ..." or compound jobs, this will be very interesting to have graph by hosts in addition of the current consolidated graphs to determine more precisely memory & cpu reservati...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: rename, change legend & value reported of the "CPU Time Variation for job" graph

the "CPU Time Variation for job" graph of the "Grid -> View Job Listing -> View Job Detail" is an incomprehensible graph for common user. this graph is showing a number of seconds of cpu usage during a time slots. if we divide the value by 3...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

RTM: add an efficiency graph in the "job graphs" tab of the "Grid -> View Job Listing -> View Job Detail" view

add a 7th graph in the set of job graphs to monitor accurately the efficiency of the jobs during the job lifetime, taking in account slots re-sizing (using bresize command)
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Multiple esubs (master + remote) in a multicluster setup

We use LSF in a multicluster configuration. We also use an esub to dynamically assign which jobs are sent to each cluster. As far as I'm aware, only one esub (on the master) can be used. We would like to have functionality for esubs on the remote ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

PAC displays PSUSP jobs as PEN from LSF

After performing a the "brequeue -a -H jobid" command to requeue a single job, I noticed that PAC shows inconsistent information about this job. The job status is incorrect. Should have been "Suspended" since LSF shows the job status , but instead...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic auto resizable lsmake

We use LSF Make using bsub -n X. The problem is that we don't know the optimal number for X at the time of submission. If X is too small, we potentially end up with long build times. If X is too big, we often end up with under utilization if the b...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration