[slurm-users] Running slurmd without enabling jobs on a node

[Steve Brasier]

Thanks all, turns out those nodes do need to be defined in the config using
NodeName, but then as Ahmet M says just don't include them in a partition.

Steve
http://stackhpc.com/
Please note I work Tuesday to Friday.


On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 06:06, mercan <ahmet.mercan at uhem.itu.edu.tr> wrote:

> Hi;
>
> I don't know the best way, but if you did not put a loginnode's name
> into a partition, the sinfo will not show this node and any job will not
> run on this node, just because of a node have a running slurmd.
>
> Ahmet M.
>
>
> 6.01.2021 19:45 tarihinde Steve Brasier yazdı:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > For a cluster in configless mode there appear to be two ways of having
> > a login-only node (i.e. not running slurmctld) - either 1) setting DNS
> > records or 2) "... consider running slurmd on the machine so it can
> > manage the configuration files, but not allowing it to run jobs." [A]
> >
> > What's the best way of achieving option 2)? Ideally I don't want the
> > login node(s) which are running slurmd even showing up in e.g sinfo.
> >
> > [A]: https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html
> > <https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html>
> >
> >
> > many thanks for any suggestions
> >
> > http://stackhpc.com/ <http://stackhpc.com/>
> > Please note I work Tuesday to Friday.
>
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