[slurm-users] Questions about adding new nodes to Slurm

[Max Voit]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:35:18 -0700
David Henkemeyer <david.henkemeyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> - Can I create a symlink that points <sysconfdir>/slurm.conf to a
> slurm.conf file on an NFS mount point, which is mounted on all the
> nodes? This way, I would only need to update a single file, then
> restart Slurm across the entire cluster.

You can also run slurm in "configless-mode", limiting the number of
hosts that need have the slurm.conf file to the ones running slurmctld:
  https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html

On the other hand, operating a cluster a configuration management
system might come in handy anyways.

Best,
Max