...not sure I'm adding anything to this discussion, but we have used the various comment fields to store extra information for internal purposes - sometimes JSON format strings so it can be parsed by scripts etc. I even once managed to mod the Elasticsearch plugin so that the comment field made it into elastic, and that meant I could immediately graph the information :)
Tina ________________________________________ From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of Ole Holm Nielsen <ole.h.niel...@fysik.dtu.dk> Sent: 03 October 2022 10:34 To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com Subject: Re: [slurm-users] unused job data fields? On 10/3/22 11:25, z1...@arcor.de wrote: > are there additional job data fields in slurm besides the job name which > can be used for additional information? > > The information should not be used by slurm, only included in the > database for external evaluation. The fields available from the Slurm database are listed in the sacct manual page under the --helpformat heading. See also the section on Job Accounting Fields. IHTH, Ole
