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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

allow to limit cpu usage to the number of slots requested

Hello,, currently, when a user submit a job, there's no way in LSF to limit the cpu consumption. recently, we discover that it's possible to limit cpu usage OS side using cgroup, by putting a value in the 'cpu.cfs_quota_us' file of the '/sys/fs/...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

INCLUDE directive for lsf.cluster file

Its great to have INCLUDE functionality added in LSF and we're using heavily in our multiple LSF clusters. Its makes it easy to manage many clusters for common config edits and keep the farms compliant. I am logging this RFE to extend this feature...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

Enable changing default credentials in RBAC-database configuration

When using LSF Explorer with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) it is required to setup an additional database. The default username/password combination is pacuser:pacuser. It is stored as a hashed value under lsfsuite/ext/explorer/server/rbac/data...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add EFA support to AWS Resource Connector

Please add support for EFA-enabled EC2 instances to the AWS Resource Connector. The EFA feature has to be explicitly enabled via command-line arguments / flags to the EC2 API.IBM uses Java code to call the AWS EC2 API, so the feature must be added...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

badmin ckconfig with -f switch to check lsb.* files individually

When we run “badmin ckconfig” – it checks for all batch files by default.It would be great If I can check only for a certain file instead of all lsb.* files – e.g. $ badmin ckconfig -v -f lsb.queues Looking forward to such a feature.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

LSF should support output/error file path that exists only in a container

As of now LSF cannot handle a scenario where the output/error file path exists only in the container and does not exist on the underlying host where the container is running .For example:bsub -o <path_in_container_only> --app <my_bapp>...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

job group management improvement

Hello,checking log file of RTM server, we found a recurrent warning triggered by too many job group for one of our LSF cluster. this highlight that we cannot have more than ~7000 job group for a cluster, the impacted cluster having ~30k explicit j...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

get user license checkouts from RTM graphs

Right now, we can only see current license checkouts in RTM. can we implement a feature in RTM that gives user license checkouts in a specific period of time, 30min from license usage graphs? I think we already have this enabled for host graphs. I...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration