Platform LSF Administrator's Primer Version 6.2

Managing Users, Hosts, and Queues
Platform LSF Administrator’s Primer
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Managing Users, Hosts, and Queues
Contents
◆ “Making your cluster available to users (cshrc.lsf and profile.lsf)” on page 32
◆ “Adding a host to your cluster” on page 32
◆ “Removing a host from your cluster” on page 35
◆ “Adding a queue” on page 36
◆ “Removing a queue” on page 36
Making your cluster available to users (cshrc.lsf and profile.lsf)
To set up the LSF environment for your users, use the following two shell files:
◆ LSF_CONFDIR/cshrc.lsf (for csh, tcsh)
◆ LSF_CONFDIR/profile.lsf (for sh, ksh, or bash)
Make sure all LSF users include one of these files at the end of their own
.cshrc or
.profile file, or run one of these two files before using LSF.
For csh or tcsh
Add cshrc.lsf to the end of the .cshrc file for all users:
◆ Copy the cshrc.lsf file into .cshrc
OR
◆ Add a line similar to the following to the end of .cshrc:
source /usr/share/lsf/lsf_62/conf/cshrc.lsf
For sh, ksh, or
bash
Add profile.lsf to the end of the .profile file for all users:
◆ Copy the profile.lsf file into .profile
OR
◆ Add a line similar to following to the end of .profile:
. /usr/share/lsf/lsf_62/conf/profile.lsf
Adding a host to your cluster
Task summary
Adding a host to your cluster has the following major steps:
1 Install LSF binaries for the host type.
2 Add host Information to lsf.cluster.cluster_name.
3 Set up the new host.
Before you start
Make sure you have the LSF distribution files for the host types you want to add. For
example, to add a Sun SPARC system running 64-bit Solaris 7 or Solaris to your cluster,
get the file
lsf60_sparc-sol7-64.tar.Z.
Distribution tar files for all supported LSF releases are available for download through
the Platform Online Support Web site at
www.platform.com or the Platform FTP
site
ftp.platform.com.
Access to the download area of the Platform Web site and the Platform FTP site is
controlled by login name and password. If you cannot access the distribution files, send
email to
[e-mail].
See the Platform Web site for a complete list of supported platforms.