[slurm-users] slurm configuration for reprise license mangagement - cloud version

[pim schravendijk]

Thanks, Ahmet, in the settings it mentions servername and servertype so it
seemed at first glance that some relatively elaborate communication with a
license server was involved. I'll try if with some scripting around the
options you mentioned I can find a suitable solution.

Greetings, Pim

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:53 PM mercan <ahmet.mercan at uhem.itu.edu.tr> wrote:

> Hi;
>
> As far as I know, the slurm is not able to work (communicate) with
> reprise license manager or any other license manager. Slurm just sums
> the used licenses according to the -L parameter of the jobs, and
> subtracts this sum from the total license count which given by using
> "sacctmgr add/modify resource", and the result is used as free license
> count. That's all. No more calculation, communication, testing,
> monitoring etc. with both license managers and jobs.
>
> If you want to share a license with non-cluster users, you should check
> and update license using a script that detects global/free license count
> changes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ahmet M.
>
>
> On 25.06.2019 14:00, pim schravendijk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We use a piece of software that works with reprise license management
> > via the cloud
> http://www.reprisesoftware.com./products/cloud-licensing.php
> >
> > According to https://slurm.schedmd.com/licenses.html slurm is able to
> > work with reprise license manager, though the examples at schedmd seem
> > to aim at the on-premise rlm version. Instead of a useful pool of
> > licenses we seem to be stuck with per-user licenses.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with rlmcloud and slurm? Maybe some sample
> > configuration or just some hints on whether this will work at all.
> >
> > Greetings, Pim
>
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