Platform LSF Administration Guide Version 6.2

Chapter 4
Working with Hosts
Administering Platform LSF
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Adding dynamic hosts in a non-shared file system (slave hosts)
If each dynamic slave host has its own LSF binaries and local lsf.conf and shell
environment scripts (
cshrc.lsf and profile.lsf), you must install LSF on each
slave host.
1 Specify installation options in the slave.config file.
The following parameters are required:
❖ LSF_SERVER_HOSTS="host_name [host_name ...]"
❖ LSF_TARDIR="/path"
❖ LSF_TOP="/path"
The following parameters are optional:
❖ LSF_LIM_PORT=port_number
If the master host does not use the default LSF_LIM_PORT, you must specify
the same LSF_LIM_PORT defined in
lsf.conf on the master host.
❖ LSF_LOCAL_RESOURCES="resource ..."
Defines the local resources for a dynamic host.
✧ For numeric resources, defined name-value pairs:
"[resourcemap value*resource_name]"
✧ For Boolean resources, the value will be the resource name in the form:
"[resource resource_name]"
For example:
LSF_LOCAL_RESOURCES="[resourcemap 1*verilog] [resource linux]"
If LSF_LOCAL_RESOURCES are already defined in a local lsf.conf on the slave
host, lsfinstall does not add resources you define in LSF_LOCAL_RESOURCES
in slave.config.
2 Use lsfinstall -s -f slave.config to install a dynamic slave host.
lsfinstall creates a local lsf.conf for the slave host, which sets the following
parameters:
❖ LSF_CONFDIR="/path"
❖ LSF_GET_CONF=lim
❖ LSF_LIM_PORT=port_number (same as the Master LIM port number)
❖ LSF_LOCAL_RESOURCES="resource ..."
❖ LSF_SERVER_HOSTS="host_name [host_name ...]"
❖ LSF_VERSION=6.2
3 Use one of the following to set the LSF environment:
❖ For csh or tcsh:
% source LSF_TOP/conf/cshrc.lsf
❖ For sh, ksh, or bash:
$ . LSF_TOP/conf/profile.lsf
4 Optionally, run hostsetup on each LSF server host.