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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

The LSFProxy does not print a 'total' count as 'badmin perfmon view' does leading to misreading of the number of total events since restarting

In 'badmin perfmon view', we always are able to see the total events for a specific output class. This is not possible in 'badmin lsfproxyd status' output. Please add that output. Specifically, we can see average/min/max rejections from proxyd, an...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Connect to existing Docker Job to get inside Container

Ability for a User to connect or attach to existing none interactive Job from terminal, that User schedule by bsub, to get access inside Docker Container.This is to be able to troubleshoot from inside running Docker Container. This is critical fea...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

hostcache auto-delete function in the mbatchd restart

Dynamic hosts remain in the cluster unless you intentionally remove them.And the manual related to it is as follows.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=cluster-remove-dynamic-hostsSuppose we delete the hostcache file, not modify ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

fix systemctl script to restart sbatchd

The root sbatchd crashes frequently in our cluster (and without anything useful in the log), but systemctl is not configured to restart the daemon. Please see the details in the related support case, but essentially we need to make it so this daem...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Extend time period that historical run time is tracked for fairshare

We use historical run time as the main component of fairshare to determine job priority and ensure that users receive the appropriate amount of run time on our clusters. The current behavior in LSF with respect to historical run time is that any t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

badmin mbdrestart -p customization

Hello, By default, badmin mbdrestart is restarting the whole mbatchd daemon. But most of the time, we need badmin mbdrestart -p. Is it possible to set a parameter that can change this behaviour ? For example, it's more practical to launch badmin m...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

the Restart Required

In the case of Windows host, we must restart the host after the uninstall completes.If we don't, installation does not proceed. I understand we must restart to apply these changes in case of windows. But for customers, they feel pressured, restart...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF is not starting correctly with LDAP duing node boots

Every time we reboot nodes LSF jobs will switch from RUN to PEND status. We have found knowledge base document that states using LDAP with LSF is a known issue. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSENRW_4.2.1/release_notes/known_issues.ht...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

lsfrestart command mbatchd parallel reconfig

ARM would like to see lsfrestart script have the option of running the mbatchd restart in parallel mode, possibly with a -p flag.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered