IBM Spectrum LSF advanced configuration

Learn about LSF error and event logging and how LSF handles job exceptions. Configure advanced LSF features.

Error and event logging
Learn how LSF uses system directories, log files, temporary work files, log files, and transaction files and job spooling files. Manage LSF error logs, system event logs. Configure duplicate logging of event logs and set daemon message log levels. Set daemon timing levels and configure LSF job termination reason logging. Learn about LSF job exit codes.
Event generation
Learn how LSF detects events occurring during daemon operations. LSF provides a program which translates LSF events into SNMP traps. Certain daemon operations cause mbatchd or the parent LIM to call the event program to generate an event. Each LSF event is identified by a predefined number, which is passed as an argument to the event program.
Customize batch command messages
How LIM matches host models
The LIM (load information manager) daemon automatically collects information about hosts in an LSF cluster, and accurately determines running host models. It takes information from the lsf.shared file, which can support up to 1024 host models.
Shared file access
Sharing configuration file content with #INCLUDE directives
LSF supports #INCLUDE directives so that you can insert the contents of one file into an LSF configuration file; this way, the contents can be shared and reused commonly across clusters or hosts. LSF directs a preprocessor to include the contents of the #INCLUDE lines you provide in the configuration files.
Authentication and authorization
Handle job exceptions
Tune CPU factors
Set clean period for DONE jobs
Enable host-based resources
Learn how Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) is integrated into LSF to detect hardware information. Enable LSF so applications can use NVIDIA Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and Intel Xeon Phi (MIC) co-processors in a Linux environment.
Manage LSF on EGO
The enterprise grid orchestrator capability (EGO) enables enterprise applications to benefit from sharing of resources across the enterprise grid. When LSF on EGO is configured, EGO serves as the central resource broker for LSF.
Load sharing X applications
Using LSF with the Etnus TotalView Debugger
Register LSF host names and IP addresses to LSF servers
Register the IP address and host name of your local LSF host with LSF servers so that LSF servers do not need to use the DNS server to resolve your local host.

Parent topic: Administer IBM Spectrum LSF