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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Data Manager enhancement: Mark job as DONE after file reaches final destination

We want the main job to be marked as DONE only after the data file has been successfully transferred to the user-specified destination. Currently, with the integration of LSF and Data Manager, the main job is marked as DONE as soon as the 'bstage ...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Adding one more field [JobID] to "badmin diagnose -c query" output

If users execute query commands in LSF batch job, it can overload the LSF master server and degrade its performance. To address this, we need a new field for job IDs to expedite the identification of problematic jobs. And the requirement is to add...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Change job submit time to include milliseconds for precision.

Job submit time to include milliseconds for precision. Instead of HH:MM:SS, make it like 12:29:05.1234. This will enable this column to be used as a unique identifier when generating data in an incremental fashion. We are extracting the RTM data a...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 4 Not under consideration

ssched jobs missing task information to calculate job run time

We graph job run time from the data in Elasticsearch provided from LSF Explorer. ssched jobs do not contain enough information to calculate job run time. We believe task jobs should contain the same data as regular LSF jobs
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under 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

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

LSF 10.1 fix 601504 the rate limiter

There is a request for the rate limiter(LSF_PROXYD_PORT). All batch queries (bsub, bhosts, bjobs, bqueues, etc) connect lsfproxyd daemons to request token first. When they get token, mbatchd respond them and transmit data to these commands. These ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Provide a method to allow LSF simulations to be captured by a customers RTM

Provided a customer set's up a RTM hostname, and credentials, when a simulation is started, register the simulation clusters data collector and the cluster itself with that RTM and then enable collection for the duration of the simulation. Name th...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 2 Not under consideration

LSF should store accounting data in database

The lsb.acct log file format is anachronistic and hard for customers to deal with. To get the LSF accounting data into a relational database customers have to write their own code to parse lsb.acct files (ether via custom code such as perl/python,...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration