[slurm-users] Quick hold on all partitions, all jobs

[Lachlan Musicman]

The IT team sent an email saying "complete network wide network outage
tomorrow night from 10pm across the whole institute".

Our plan is to put all queued jobs on hold, suspend all running jobs, and
turning off the login node.

I've just discovered that the partitions have a state, and it can be set to
UP, DOWN, DRAIN or INACTIVE.

In this situation - most likely a 4 hour outage with nothing else affected
- would you mark your partitions DOWN or INACTIVE?

Ostensibly all users should be off the systems (because no network), but
there's always one that sets an at or cron job or finds that corner case.

Cheers
L.


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