Start, stop, and reconfigure LSF

Use LSF administration commands lsadmin and badmin to start and stop LSF daemons, and reconfigure cluster properties.

Two LSF administration commands (lsadmin and badmin)

Important: Only LSF administrators or root can run these commands.
To start and stop LSF, and to reconfigure LSF after you change any configuration file, use the following commands:
  • The lsadmin command controls the operation of the lim and res daemons.
  • The badmin command controls the operation of the mbatchd and sbatchd daemons.

If you installed LSF as a non-root user

By default, only root can start LSF daemons. If the lsfinstall command detected that you installed as non-root user, you chose to configure either a multi-user cluster or a single-user cluster:
Multi-user configuration
Only root can start LSF daemons. Any user can submit jobs to your cluster.

For information about changing ownership and permissions for the lsadmin and badmincommands, see Troubleshooting LSF problems.

To permit LSF administrators to start and stop LSF daemons, set up the /etc/lsf.sudoers file, as described in Configure LSF Startup.

Single-user
Your user account must be primary LSF administrator. You are able to start LSF daemons, but only your user account can submit jobs to the cluster. Your user account must be able to read the system kernel information, such as /dev/kmem.