Administering Platform LSF - SAS

Index
embedded submission options for interactive jobs 411
ended job dependency condition 292
environment of a job 49
environment variables. See individual environment
variable names
equal share fairshare 237
erestart executable, application-level checkpointing 310
error logs
log directory, LSF_LOGDIR 522
log files 522
LSF daemons 522
LSF_LOG_MASK parameter 522
managing log files 522
on UNIX and Windows NT 522
errors, viewing in reconfiguration 66
esub (external submission) executable
description 381
environment variables 381
job submission parameters 384
mandatory method (LSB_ESUB_METHOD) 386
pass data to execution environments 388
esub method (LSB_ESUB_METHOD) 386
/etc/hosts file
example host entries 90
host naming 88
name lookup 88
troubleshooting 530
/etc/hosts.equiv file
host authentication 500
troubleshooting 530
using rcp 518
/etc/services file, adding LSF entries to 85
/etc/syslog.conf file 522
event generation 478
event log archiving, automatic 525
event log replication. See duplicate event logging
event logs
automatic archiving 525
configuring duplicate logging 525
duplicate logging 525
logging administrator comments
for host open and close 74
for mbatchd restart 64
for queue events 104
lsb.events file 51
LSF Batch log file in lsb.events file 523
update interval 525
Event Viewer, Windows NT 478
EVENT_UPDATE_INTERVAL in lsb.params 525
events
custom programs to handle 478
generated by LSF 479
logging 51
example.services file 85
examples, /etc/hosts file entries 90
exception handling
configuring host exceptions 96
configuring in queues 110
description 52
exception status
for hosts, viewing with bhosts 73
for jobs
viewing with bjobs 116
viewing with bqueues 103
exclusive jobs
description 175
requeue 303
exclusive queues 175
execution
environment 49
forcing for jobs 119
priority 148
execution host, mandatory for parallel jobs 439
exit job dependency condition 292
EXIT job state
abnormal job termination 114
pre- and post-execution commands 367
exit rate for jobs 96
EXIT_RATE, bhosts -l 73
EXIT_RATE parameter in lsb.hosts 96
expiry time for mbatchd 491
external
job dependency condition 293
job submission executable (esub) 381
LIM. See ELIM (external LIM)
load indices, using ELIM 158
user groups, configuring 133
external authentication (eauth)
description 494
standard input and output 495
F
FAIRSHARE parameter in lsb.queues 213
fairshare scheduling
across queues 211
chargeback 236
chunk jobs 329
defining policies that apply to several queues 211
description 202
equal share 237
global 236
hierarchical share tree 217
overview 201
parallel jobs 458
policies 202
priority user 237
static priority 238
viewing cross-queue fairshare information 211
viewing queue-level information 210
FAIRSHARE_QUEUES parameter
in bqueues 211
in lsb.queues 213
fault tolerance
checkpointing jobs 308
description 51
non-shared file systems 515
FCFS (first-come, first-served) scheduling 46
file access, interactive tasks 420
file preparation, job arrays 334
file sharing 49
file size usage limit 352
Administering Platform LSF 565