LSF Version 7.3 - Administering Platform LSF

Administering Platform LSF 105
Working with Queues
Close a queue
1 Run badmin qclose:
badmin qclose normal
Queue <normal> is closed
When a user tries to submit a job to a closed queue the following message is
displayed:
bsub -q normal ...
normal: Queue has been closed
Open a queue
1 Run badmin qopen:
badmin qopen normal
Queue <normal> is opened
Inactivate a queue
1 Run badmin qinact:
badmin qinact normal
Queue <normal> is inactivated
Activate a queue
1 Run badmin qact:
badmin qact normal
Queue <normal> is activated
Log a comment when controlling a queue
1 Use the -C option of badmin queue commands qclose, qopen, qact, and
qinact to log an administrator comment in lsb.events.
badmin qclose -C "change configuration" normal
The comment text change configuration is recorded in lsb.events.
A new event record is recorded for each queue event. For example:
badmin qclose -C "add user" normal
followed by
badmin qclose -C "add user user1" normal
will generate records in lsb.events:
"QUEUE_CTRL" "7.0 1050082373 1 "normal" 32185 "lsfadmin" "add user"
"QUEUE_CTRL" "7.0 1050082380 1 "normal" 32185 "lsfadmin" "add user user1"