External Load Indices manager (ELIM) Graphs

External Load Indices manager reports the values of dynamic external resources. A dynamic external resource is a user-defined resource with a numeric value that changes over time, such as the space available in a directory. Using RTM, you can create graphs for those ELIMs and analyze them.

If you have specific workload or resource requirements at your site, the LSF administrator can define external resources. The LSF administrator programs the elim to define external load indices, populate those indices with the values of dynamic external resources, and return the indices and their values to stdout.

The RTM administrator can create ELIM Templates based on ELIMs that were created for LSF, instantiate onto one or more clusters through Host Type, Host Model, or Host Group filter. The reason for this ability to filter hosts for ELIM Graph creation is that in many cases, an ELIM-based resource might be present only on a subset of hosts in a cluster.