[slurm-users] Slurm Accounting Question

[Jessica Nettelblad]

We save all job scripts by adding a line of scontrol write batch_script to
our slurmctld.prolog. For example:
test -e "$jobdir/jobscript" || timeout 15s scontrol write batch_script
"${SLURM_JOBID}" "$jobdir/jobscript"

Best regards,
Jessica Nettelblad, UPPMAX

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 2:26 PM Douglas Duckworth <dod2014 at med.cornell.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Lois
>
> Thanks for letting us know!
>
> So out of the box there's no way to know what script for example a user
> ran in a particular job?  Wish that feature existed as we sometimes have
> users who contact us regarding jobs that exited weeks ago.
>
> We will look into the solution you suggest.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Douglas Duckworth, MSc, LFCS
> HPC System Administrator
> Scientific Computing Unit <https://scu.med.cornell.edu>
> Weill Cornell Medicine
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> E: doug at med.cornell.edu
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>
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 1:40 AM Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Douglas,
>>
>> Douglas Duckworth <dod2014 at med.cornell.edu> writes:
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > We are in the process of migrating several clusters from SGE to Slurm.
>> >
>> > We discovered that accounting does not show what command a previous
>> > job ran. For currently running jobs scontrol for example will show:
>> >
>> > JobId=33028 JobName=bash
>> > Command=bash
>> >
>> > Yet we would like to have that stored in accounting as it's useful for
>> > jobs that existed ungracefully.
>> >
>> > Any way to accomplish with Slurm version 17.02?
>> >
>> > "sacct -e" does not show "Command" as a possible field.
>>
>> As far as I am aware, Slurm does not retain this information.  Even if
>> it did, for jobs started with 'sbatch' the 'Command' field contains the
>> name of the batch file, which may not be that useful.
>>
>> An approach some people have mentioned using is collecting the
>> information via a submit plugin and then storing it outside of Slurm's
>> standard accounting.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
>> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
>>
>>
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