[slurm-users] Working with local licenses

[Tager, Alexey]

Hi Ahmet,

I agree, it isn't so good solution

Thanks
Alexey

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Hi;

But, restarting in every minute, is not a good solution.

Ahmet M.


On 25.09.2020 11:25, Tager, Alexey wrote:
> Hi Ahmet,
>
> We tried remote licenses, but encountered following issues, which lead us to using of local licenses.
> - only low case while inserting by sacctmgr
>   - dead locks and duplicate records
> - direct insert is working and case sensitive, but scontrol doesn't 
> see change until slurmctld restart
>
>
> Regards
> Alexey
>
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> Alexey <alexeyt at amazon.com>
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>
> Hi;
>
> You don't need to modify slurm.conf and reconfigure. There is a remote/dynamic licenses feature:
>
> https://slurm.schedmd.com/licenses.html
>
> You can add licenses using scontrol command such as:
>
> sacctmgr add resource name=matlab count=50 server=rlm_host \
>     servertype=rlm type=license
>
> Regards;
>
> Ahmet M.
>
>
> On 25.09.2020 11:09, Tager, Alexey wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We use  local licenses by updating slurm.conf with script,
>>
>> which talking with FlexLM
>>
>> We execute “scontrol reconfigure” every 1 min after file change in 
>> crontab
>>
>> Users get following error when run slurm commands (srun,scontrol 
>> etc.) during
>>
>> crontab execution, as result srun failed on license request
>>
>> Any option to prevent such behavior ?
>>
>> [September 24, 2020, 7:18 PM] Tager, Alexey: scontrol: error: Parse 
>> error in file /tools/slurm/etc/slurm_licenses.conf line 10: "Licenses="
>>
>> scontrol: error: "Include" failed in file /tools/slurm/etc/slurm.conf 
>> line 13
>>
>> scontrol: fatal: Unable to process configuration file
>>
>> /Alexey Tager/
>>