<div dir="ltr">Thanks all, turns out those nodes do need to be defined in the config using NodeName, but then as Ahmet M says just don't include them in a partition.<div><br></div><div>Steve<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://stackhpc.com/" target="_blank">http://stackhpc.com/</a></div><div>Please note I work Tuesday to Friday.</div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 06:06, mercan <<a href="mailto:ahmet.mercan@uhem.itu.edu.tr">ahmet.mercan@uhem.itu.edu.tr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi;<br>
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I don't know the best way, but if you did not put a loginnode's name <br>
into a partition, the sinfo will not show this node and any job will not <br>
run on this node, just because of a node have a running slurmd.<br>
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Ahmet M.<br>
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6.01.2021 19:45 tarihinde Steve Brasier yazdı:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> For a cluster in configless mode there appear to be two ways of having <br>
> a login-only node (i.e. not running slurmctld) - either 1) setting DNS <br>
> records or 2) "... consider running slurmd on the machine so it can <br>
> manage the configuration files, but not allowing it to run jobs." [A]<br>
><br>
> What's the best way of achieving option 2)? Ideally I don't want the <br>
> login node(s) which are running slurmd even showing up in e.g sinfo.<br>
><br>
> [A]: <a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html</a> <br>
> <<a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html</a>><br>
><br>
><br>
> many thanks for any suggestions<br>
><br>
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> Please note I work Tuesday to Friday.<br>
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