Contents

Audience

LSF Suite 3.2

Related Documents

Technical Assistance

Definitions

Clusters

Submission, Master, and Execution Hosts

Fault Tolerance

Shared Directories and Files

Shared User Directories

Executables and the PATH Environment Variable

Using LSF JobScheduler without Shared File Systems

Resources and Resource Requirements

Remote Execution Control

User Authentication Methods

How LSF Chooses Authentication Methods

Host Authentication Methods

User Account Mapping

How LSF JobScheduler Schedules Jobs

Job States

Pre- and Post-Execution Commands

LSF Daemons

Load Information Manager (LIM)

Remote Execution Server (RES)

Master Batch Daemon (mbatchd)

Slave Batch Daemon (sbatchd)

Alarm Daemon (alarmd)

External Event Daemon (eeventd)

Remote File Access

Managing Error Logs

LSF JobScheduler Daemon Error Log

FLEXlm Log

Controlling LIM and RES Daemons

Checking Host Status

Restarting LIM and RES

Remote Startup of LIM and RES

Shutting down LIM and RES

Managing LSF Configuration

Overview of LSF Configuration Files

Configuration File Formats

Example Configuration Files

Changing LIM Configuration

Host Resources

Reconfiguring an LSF Cluster

External Resource Collection

Writing an External LIM

Overriding Built-In Load Indices

Tuning CPU Factors

LSF License Management

How FLEXlm Works 45

The License Server Daemon

The License File

License Management Utilities 47

Updating an LSF License

Changing the FLEXlm Server TCP Port

Modifying LSF Products and Licensing

Managing LSF JobScheduler Logs

LSF JobScheduler Accounting Log

LSF JobScheduler Event Log

Duplicate Event Logging

Configuring Duplicate Event Logging

How Duplicate Event Logging Works

Controlling LSF JobScheduler Servers

LSF JobScheduler System Status

Remote Start-up of sbatchd

Restarting sbatchd

Shutting Down LSF JobScheduler Daemons

Opening and Closing of Server Hosts

Controlling LSF JobScheduler Queues

bqueues -- Queue Status

Opening and Closing Queues

Activating and Inactivating Queues

Managing LSF JobScheduler Configuration

Adding a JobScheduler Server Host

Removing a JobScheduler Server Host

Adding a Queue

Removing a Queue

Controlling LSF JobScheduler Jobs

Controlling Job Execution Environment

Using a Job Starter

System Calendars

External Event Management

The eeventd Protocol

File Event Handling

Alarm Configuration

The lsf.conf File

The lsf.shared File

Clusters

Host Types

Host Models

Resources

The lsf.cluster.cluster File

Parameters

LSF Administrators

Hosts

The lsf.sudoers File

The lsb.params File

Parameters

The lsb.hosts File

Host Section

Host Groups

The lsb.queues File

General Parameters

Queue-Level Pre-/Post-Execution Commands

Job Starter

The lsb.alarms File

DESCRIPTION

Examples

The lsb.calendars File

Error Log Messages

Finding the Error Logs

Shared File Access

Shared File Access on UNIX 106

Shared File Access on Windows NT 107

Shared Files Across UNIX and NT

Common LSF Base Problems

LIM Dies Quietly

LIM Unavailable

RES Does Not Start

User Permission Denied

Non-uniform File Name Space

Common LSF JobScheduler Problems

Batch Daemons Die Quietly

sbatchd Starts But mbatchd Does Not

Host Not Used By LSF JobScheduler

Error Messages

General Errors

Configuration Errors

LIM Messages

RES Messages

LSF JobScheduler Messages

Requirements

Recommended

Differences Between LSF for UNIX and NT

File Permissions

Mail

The cmd.exe Program

Heterogeneous NT/UNIX Environments

User Accounts

Configuration Files

Environment Variables

Cross-Platform Daemon Startup

Signal Conversion

Starting Services and Daemons

Using LSF

Miscellaneous