[slurm-users] sacctmgr - bug listing accounts?

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

Hi Loris,

On 04/30/2018 10:12 AM, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Thanks, I should have spotted that, although I don't understand the
> difference between 'parent' and 'organisation' and in fact asked this
> question:
> 
>   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/slurm-users/f1vftgIRcVk
> 
> on the subject recently.
> 
> The dump indicates to me that a hierarchy is being set up via the
> 'parent' attribute.  The output of 'sacctmgr' and what you point out
> suggest that there is a separate hierarchy defined by 'organisation'.
> 
> In any case, I can't work out the the correct syntax to set the
> organisation.  The following doesn't produce an error but doesn't have
> any effect:
> 
>    $ sacctmgr modify account where name=geochemie set organization=geowiss
>    Nothing modified
> 
> and I still get:
> 
> $ sacctmgr list acc org=geowiss
>       Account                Descr                  Org
>    ---------- -------------------- --------------------
>    geographie           geographie              geowiss
>      geologie             geologie              geowiss
>     geophysik            geophysik              geowiss
>    meteorolo+         meteorologie              geowiss
> 
> How do I set the organisation of an account?  And why is it necessary if
> 'parent' is set?

I also struggled with these terms a while back, and my notes on setting 
up accounts are in the Wiki page 
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_accounting#create-accounts-and-users

The "parent" concept can be quite useful, depending on your needs. I 
hope this helps a bit.

/Ole