[slurm-users] slurmdbd not showing job accounting

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 14-10-2018 06:30, Steven Dick wrote:
> I've found that when creating a new cluster, slurmdbd does not
> function correctly right away.  It may be necessary to restart
> slurmdbd at several points during the slurm installation process to
> get everything working correctly.
> 
> Also, slurmctld will buffer the accounting data until slurmdbd starts
> functioning correctly, so it is possible if you restart slurmdbd you
> will find that all your missing accounting data shows up at once.
> 
> One of the critical steps is   sacctmgr create cluster $clustername
> where $clustername matches the ClusterName parameter in slurm.conf

Correct, and this is documented in the Slurm accounting setup page:
https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html#database-configuration

/Ole