Platform LSF Administration Guide Version 6.2

Administering Platform LSF
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Goal-Oriented SLA-Driven Scheduling
Contents
◆ “Using Goal-Oriented SLA Scheduling” on page 312
❖ “Service-level agreements in LSF” on page 312
❖ “Service classes” on page 312
❖ “Service-level goals” on page 312
❖ “How service classes perform goal-oriented scheduling” on page 313
❖ “Submitting jobs to a service class” on page 313
❖ “Modifying SLA jobs (bmod)” on page 314
◆ “Configuring Service Classes for SLA Scheduling” on page 315
❖ “User groups for service classes” on page 315
❖ “Service class priority” on page 315
❖ “Service class configuration examples” on page 315
◆ “Viewing Information about SLAs and Service Classes” on page 318
❖ “Monitoring the progress of an SLA (bsla)” on page 318
❖ “Tracking historical behavior of an SLA (bacct)” on page 319
◆ “Understanding Service Class Behavior” on page 322
❖ “A simple deadline goal” on page 322
❖ “An overnight run with two service classes” on page 323
❖ “When an SLA is missing its goal” on page 325
❖ “Preemption and SLA policies” on page 325
❖ “Chunk jobs and SLA policies” on page 325
❖ “SLA statistics files” on page 326