[slurm-users] How to power up all ~idle nodes and verify that they have started up without issue programmatically

Dear Slurm User list,

I would like to startup all ~idle (idle and powered down) nodes and check programmatically if all came up as expected. For context: this is for a program that sets up slurm clusters with on demand cloud scheduling.

In the most easiest fashion this could be executing a command like *srun FORALL hostname* which would return the names of the nodes if it succeeds and an error message otherwise. However, there's no such input value like FORALL as far as I am aware. One could use -N{total node number} as all nodes are ~idle when this executes, but I don't know an easy way to get the total number of nodes.

Best regards, Xaver