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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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For each job, records the number of execution host CPU cores in the job's table

As we evaluate the utility of SMT2/4/8, we would like to be able to measure the performance difference of the applications at scale by recording the number of slots of the compute host for every job. This would achieved by adding a tinyint unsigne...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

allow lsb.stream files to use data from already existing lsb.acct

If the lsb.stream file not generated or has been removed, LSF Explorer can't load the job data into ES. Currently LSF Explorer doesn't have the functionality to load the data from lsb.acct files, but it is possible to re-generate lsb.stream file b...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF service protection for queries

Before I explain it,this feature request is very important to us because it affects the entire LSF service.If these features are provided, we believe that we can achieve higher safety for our LSF products. Suddenly there was a mbatchd load issue w...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

allow RTM reporting to export excel data

The Reporting tool in cacti gives the option of sending out periodical usage graphs to users. It would be great to also have the option of including raw CSV data in these reports. The workaround is to log into RTM and manually grab the CSV export,...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Increase granularity of controls in SECURE_JOB_INFO_LEVEL

In the lsb.params file, an administrator can set the SECURE_JOB_INFO_LEVEL to one of five levels, giving them granular control over what data users can see about other users jobs using the 'bjobs' command. An administrator can also set ENABLE_JOB_...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

New metrics available in LSF 10.1.14 [CPU Peak, cpu_efficiency ...] need to be captured in RTM

Collecting Job data like [CPU Peak, cpu_efficiency ...] will be very useful for Analysis.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Delivered

Generic Dataloader ( storage)

Request to have a generic dataloader in line with standard dataloading process of LSF explorer. This will help to load our additional data in LSF explorer while keeping the standards ( like timestamp, format,.. of data) in line with existing LSF &...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Implement business mapping in LSF Explorer

Need to implement following business mapping in LSF explorer. The use case is that our customers are not familiar with the IT type of naming convention for example cluster_name, LSF project name or user group name. To let our customers use the LSF...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Delivered