"Tager, Alexey" <alex...@amazon.com> writes: > Hi Ahmet, > > I agree, it isn't so good solution
We used to use a solution which also wasn't very good, but perhaps slightly better than restarting slurmctld every minute. We created an unlimited reservation and then updated the reservation via a cron job with the current number of free licences. Obviously the users then had to specify the reservation as well as the licence. Cheers, Loris > Thanks > Alexey > > -----Original Message----- > From: mercan <ahmet.mer...@uhem.itu.edu.tr> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 11:50 AM > To: Tager, Alexey <alex...@amazon.com>; Slurm User Community List > <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> > Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [slurm-users] Working with local licenses > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click > links or open attachments unless you can confirm the sender and know the > content is safe. > > > > Hi; > > But, restarting in every minute, is not a good solution. > > Ahmet M. > > > On 25.09.2020 11:25, Tager, Alexey wrote: >> Hi Ahmet, >> >> We tried remote licenses, but encountered following issues, which lead us to >> using of local licenses. >> - only low case while inserting by sacctmgr >> - dead locks and duplicate records >> - direct insert is working and case sensitive, but scontrol doesn't >> see change until slurmctld restart >> >> >> Regards >> Alexey >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mercan <ahmet.mer...@uhem.itu.edu.tr> >> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 11:16 AM >> To: Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>; Tager, >> Alexey <alex...@amazon.com> >> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [slurm-users] Working with local licenses >> >> CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not >> click links or open attachments unless you can confirm the sender and know >> the content is safe. >> >> >> >> Hi; >> >> You don't need to modify slurm.conf and reconfigure. There is a >> remote/dynamic licenses feature: >> >> https://slurm.schedmd.com/licenses.html >> >> You can add licenses using scontrol command such as: >> >> sacctmgr add resource name=matlab count=50 server=rlm_host \ >> servertype=rlm type=license >> >> Regards; >> >> Ahmet M. >> >> >> On 25.09.2020 11:09, Tager, Alexey wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> We use local licenses by updating slurm.conf with script, >>> >>> which talking with FlexLM >>> >>> We execute “scontrol reconfigure” every 1 min after file change in >>> crontab >>> >>> Users get following error when run slurm commands (srun,scontrol >>> etc.) during >>> >>> crontab execution, as result srun failed on license request >>> >>> Any option to prevent such behavior ? >>> >>> [September 24, 2020, 7:18 PM] Tager, Alexey: scontrol: error: Parse >>> error in file /tools/slurm/etc/slurm_licenses.conf line 10: "Licenses=" >>> >>> scontrol: error: "Include" failed in file /tools/slurm/etc/slurm.conf >>> line 13 >>> >>> scontrol: fatal: Unable to process configuration file >>> >>> /Alexey Tager/ >>> -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de
