[slurm-users] Regarding Multi-Cluster Accounting Information

[Shaghuf Rahman]

Hi Yair,

Thank you for clarification.

Could you please tell me which way is better for accounting related reports.

Thanks & Regards,
Shaghuf
On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 15:08, Yair Yarom <irush at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have several clusters on the same database. There are some entities
> which are per cluster and some which are per database.
> accounts - per cluster (you can have same account name with a different
> account hierarchy, and different limits per cluster)
> association - per cluster
> qos - per database (we prefix our qos name with the cluster name to
> distinguish).
> partitions/nodes - per cluster (not really in the database though)
> users - I'm not sure. On one hand an admin user is an admin for all
> clusters. On the other hand, a user can have a different default account
> per cluster.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 13:26, Shaghuf Rahman <shaghuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried adding the 2 individual account in cluster A and ClusterB
>> respectively
>> and 1 account which is added to both the cluster
>>
>> # sacctmgr show user cluster=alpha
>>       User   Def Acct     Admin
>> ---------- ---------- ---------
>>    user1         alpha_grp None
>>    user2         test      None
>>    user3         beta_grp  None
>>       root       root Administ+
>> # sacctmgr show user cluster=beta
>>       User   Def Acct     Admin
>> ---------- ---------- ---------
>>    user1         beta_grp  None
>>    user2         test      None
>>    user3         beta_grp  None
>>       root       root Administ+
>>
>> So my question is does the account should be available on both the
>> cluster or should it be unique accounts on both the cluster.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shaghuf
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:46 AM Shaghuf Rahman <shaghuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new to slurm. I am setting up a multi cluster environment. I  have
>>> 1 small doubt with respect to the user accounting. My setup will look like
>>> below:
>>> Cluster name A: *Alpha* (Slurmctld)
>>> Cluster name B: *Beta* (Slurmctld)
>>> Both controllers are pointing to the same database server.
>>> My slurm accounting name is *hpc_acc_db*.
>>> I have added unique users as:
>>> user1 alpha_grp (belongs to alpha cluster).
>>> user1 beta_grp {belongs to beta c.luster).
>>>
>>> My question is if this accounting should be unique in both the clusters
>>> or it should be 2 different entries mentioned above.
>>> do we need to add user as
>>> sacctmgr add user user1 account=alpha_grp cluster=Alpha,Beta  or
>>> it should be different like:
>>> sacctmgr add user user1 account=alpha_grp cluster=Alpha
>>> sacctmgr add user1 account=beta_grp cluster=Beta
>>>
>>> Please let me know in case of any additional information.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Shaghuf Rahman
>>>
>>
>
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