[slurm-users] Steps to upgrade slurm for a patchlevel change?

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 9/28/23 17:58, Groner, Rob wrote:
> There's 14 steps to upgrading slurm listed on their website, including 
> shutting down and backing up the database.  So far we've only updated 
> slurm during a downtime, and it's been a major version change, so we've 
> taken all the steps indicated.
> 
> We now want to upgrade from 23.02.4 to 23.02.5.
> 
> Our slurm builds end up in version named directories, and we tell 
> production which one to use via symlink.  Changing the symlink will 
> automatically change it on our slurm controller node and all slurmd nodes.
> 
> Is there an expedited, simple, slimmed down upgrade path to follow if 
> we're looking at just a . level upgrade?

Upgrading minor releases usually work without any problems.  We use RPMs 
in stead of the symlink method, so I can't speak for symlinks.  I 
recommend you to read the latest SLUG'23 presentations and Jason Booth's 
slides https://slurm.schedmd.com/SLUG23/Field-Notes-7.pdf page 26+.

For those using the RPM method, I have collected some notes in my Wiki 
page 
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/Slurm_installation/#upgrading-slurm

/Ole