Administering Platform LSF - SAS

Event Generation
Event Generation
Enabling event generation
SNMP trap
program
Custom event
handling
programs
LSF detects events occurring during the operation of LSF daemons. LSF
provides a program which translates LSF events into SNMP traps. You can also
write your own program that runs on the master host to interpret and respond
to LSF events in other ways. For example, your program could:
◆ Page the system administrator
◆ Send email to all users
◆ Integrate with your existing network management software to validate and
correct the problem
On Windows NT, use the Windows NT Event Viewer to view LSF events.
If you use the LSF SNMP trap program as the event handler, see the SNMP
documentation for instructions on how to enable event generation.
If you use a custom program to handle the LSF events, take the following steps
to enable event generation.
1 Write a custom program to interpret the arguments passed by LSF. See
“Arguments passed to the LSF event program” on page 479 and “Events list”
on page 479 for more information.
2 To enable event generation, define LSF_EVENT_RECEIVER in lsf.conf.
You must specify an event receiver even if your program ignores it.
The event receiver maintains cluster-specific or changeable information
that you do not want to hard-code into the event program. For example,
the event receiver could be the path to a current log file, the email address
of the cluster administrator, or the host to send SNMP traps to.
3 Set LSF_EVENT_PROGRAM in lsf.conf and specify the name of your
custom event program. If you name your event program genevent
(genevent.exe on Windows) and place it in LSF_SERVERDIR, you can
skip this step.
4 Reconfigure the cluster with the commands lsadmin reconfig and
badmin reconfig.
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Administering Platform LSF