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Spectrum LSF

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LIcence reservation in LSF License Scheduler

Parallel ECLIPSE simulations need one parallel licence per slot and we'd like the ability to reserve licences in the same way that slots can be reserved. eg: SLOT_RESERVE = MAX_RESERVE_TIME[180]
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Enabling postgres access in Tableau desktop

Hi, With reference to the below attached email conversation, we need to enable postgres access through tableau desktopor platform analytics designer provided with Platform Analytics Package, From: Di VK Wu/China/IBMTo: Madhu-sudan KAPOOR Cc: Gui H...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LSF License Scheduler failover

The master bld should correctly fail over to a slave bld in the event of a storage outage causing the master bld to fail. Mbatchd running on other clusters is able to recognise that the master bld has failed and to start using it's local bld.db, s...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Use Cgroups to keep track of job's associated PIDs

There is a race condition where a new process could take the place of a just-ended process that was part of a job. LSF does not check if the PID XXX is the initial process or it is a new one. Furthermore, when this situation happens, it does not m...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

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