[slurm-users] Problem with assigning user to partition

[Mahmood Naderan]

To be honest, yes that is confusing me!
sacctmgr shows the system user name under User column. I specified
that name for the AllowAccounts parameter in the parts file. Is that
wrong?
Is AllowAccounts the same as Account column in sacctmgr? Then I see local only

[root at rocks7 ~]# sacctmgr list association
format=account,user,partition,association
   Account       User  Partition     Assocs
---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
      root
      root       root
     local
     local      hamid
     local    mahmood



Regards,
Mahmood




On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Loris Bennett
<loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi Mahmood,
>
> Mahmood Naderan <mahmood.nt at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have assigned user/group to a partition I also have set --partition
>> correctly in the sbatch script. However, the jobs remains pending with
>> the reason AccountNotAllowed. Any idea about that?
>>
>>
>>
>> [mahmood at rocks7 g]$ scontrol show partitions
>> ....
>> PartitionName=MONTHLY1
>>    AllowGroups=mahmood AllowAccounts=mahmood AllowQos=ALL
>>    AllocNodes=rocks7 Default=NO QoS=N/A
>>    DefaultTime=NONE DisableRootJobs=NO ExclusiveUser=NO GraceTime=0 Hidden=NO
>>    MaxNodes=UNLIMITED MaxTime=UNLIMITED MinNodes=1 LLN=NO
>> MaxCPUsPerNode=UNLIMITED
>>    Nodes=compute-0-0
>>    PriorityJobFactor=1 PriorityTier=1 RootOnly=NO ReqResv=NO OverSubscribe=NO
>>    OverTimeLimit=NONE PreemptMode=OFF
>>    State=UP TotalCPUs=32 TotalNodes=1 SelectTypeParameters=NONE
>>    DefMemPerNode=UNLIMITED MaxMemPerNode=UNLIMITED
>>
>> [mahmood at rocks7 g]$ groups
>> mahmood google-otp
>> [mahmood at rocks7 g]$ sbatch slurm_script.sh
>> Submitted batch job 71
>> [mahmood at rocks7 g]$ squeue
>>              JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES
>> NODELIST(REASON)
>>                 71  MONTHLY1      g-8  mahmood PD       0:00      1
>> (AccountNotAllowed)
>> [mahmood at rocks7 g]$ cat slurm_script.sh
>> #!/bin/bash
>> #SBATCH --output=test.out
>> #SBATCH --job-name=g-8
>> #SBATCH --ntasks=8
>> #SBATCH --mem=8GB
>> #SBATCH --time=99:00:00
>> #SBATCH --partition=MONTHLY1
>> g09 test.gjf
>
> I think you are confusing Unix groups with the groups used by Slurm
> accounting.  The problem is that the Slurm documentation often uses
> 'group' to refer to 'association', i.e. the combination of user and
> account.
>
> You probably need to read
>
>   https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html
>
> and then set up accounts and associations as required.
>
> Regards
>
> Loris
>
> --
> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
>