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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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Rest API to Close and Open Hosts

currently we only have get methods for host. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=SSZUMP_7.3.2/api/rest/ego/v1/api_reference/ego.htm can we expose host close ( with or without reclaim) and open under Rest API?
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

AWS spot eviction mechanism does not trigger onServiceInterrupt() event

CVA is using spot servers on AWS. The application is highly depending on the onServiceInterrupt() to properly shutdown the task when spot eviction happens. If the running task can not receive the onServiceInterrupt() and close its output files pro...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

[Integration Requirement] Possibility to select different memory allocation libraries

Summary: Provide the possibility to select different memory allocation libraries (implementing certain allocation/de-allocation algorithms) via application profile entry for the SSM. Proposed candidates: jemalloc and tcmalloc. They become necessar...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

[Cluster Management] Allow new servers joining the cluster in "closed" status

We need to have a way to control the status of the servers just joined a cluster. Currently new servers join the cluster in "open" status which can start to run jobs right away. We need an option to allow servers joining the cluster but in "closed...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Ensure "egosh resource open" truly open a host to take new tasks by default

When Symphony opens a host, the common sense understanding of it is "open" means the host is open to "business" i.e. to new workload. However, the current Symphony host open feature is so that, if SOAM_CLOSE_NODE_GRACEFULLY=Y also true, then hosts...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Future consideration

support of SHA 256 certificates for grid gui 6.1.1 - DB

Due to the fact that the signature algorithm SHA 1 is considered to be unsafe and SHA 1 certificates are marked as unsafe by well known browsers, we had decided, to swap all SHA 1 certificates against SHA 256 certificates. This includes the certif...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

Adding session close info into INFO log.

When the SSM is running as normal level log, we need to have into info logs all metrics that will be interesting to know when we reach SSM limitation. THe most important metric for use to have is : - Active live session- Yield taskbut others metri...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Future consideration

SMC: "resubmitOnZeroResourcesTImeoutMinutes" to be applicable at cluster level

Objective:Given 3 clusters (2 primary cluster and 1 reserve cluster) and for a given application, we want to be able to do session level redirection such that: 1) Both Primary clusters are not scalable but Reserve cluster is2) The first ranked pri...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

[Cluster Management] EGO - Harvesting - Provide time based thresholds which prohibts Physical Server harvesting during business hrs/peak usage.

The Physical Server harvesting configuration file should provide a time based threshould through which we can close the harvested host from accepting symphony jobs
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration