LSF Version 7.3 - Platform LSF Configuration Reference
External host and user groups commands
Commands to submit workload
Command Description
bsub -m host_group
•
Submits a job to run on any host that belongs to the specified host group.
bsub -G user_group
•
For fairshare scheduling only. Associates the job with the specified group.
Specify any group that you belong to that does not contain subgroups.
Commands to monitor
Although you cannot monitor egroup behavior directly, you can display information about
running jobs for specific host or user groups.
Command
Description
bjobs -m host_group
•
Displays jobs submitted to run on any host that belongs to the specified host
group.
bjobs -G user_group
•
Displays jobs submitted using bsub -G for the specified user group.
bjobs -u user_group
•
Displays jobs submitted by users that belong to the specified user group.
Commands to control
Command
Description
badmin reconfig
•
Imports group members on demand from your external host and user group
lists.
Commands to display configuration
Command
Description
bmgroup
•
Displays a list of host groups and the names of hosts that belong to each
group.
bugroup
•
Displays a list of user groups and the names of users that belong to each
group.
Use a text editor to view the lsb.hosts and lsb.users configuration files.
Feature: External host and user groups
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