Just replying to my own mail here:
RTFM So, It was enough to add the following: SchedulerParameters=allow_zero_lic in slurm.conf ________________________________ From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of Matteo Guglielmi <matteo.guglie...@dalco.ch> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 3:03:35 PM To: slurm-us...@schedmd.com Subject: [slurm-users] sharing licences with non slurm workers Dear all, we have a license server which is allocating licenses to a bunk of workstation not managed with slurm (completely independent boxes) and the nodes of a cluster, all managed with slurm. I wrote a simple script that keeps querying the number of licenses used by the outside "world" and changes the total number of available license in the slurm database. Everything works as expected except when all licenses are used outside of slurm. When this occurs, the total number of licenses is set to zero and slurm refuses to accept any job asking for one or more licenses with this error message: "sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Invalid license specification" So, is there a way to configure slurm to still accept and queue jobs even when the total number of licenses is set temporarily to zero? If my approach is not correct, is there a way to share a common license server between slurm workers and non slurm workers? Thank you.
