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Testing Your LSF Installation

Contents

Checking the license server (permanent LSF license)

Check the License Server is started

Display license server status

Display licensed products

For more information

Checking the cluster

Verify cluster configuration

Start the cluster

Check the Load Information Manager (LIM)

Check the Remote Execution Server (RES)

For more information

LSF on Platform EGO

Checking the LSF batch system

Verify the LSF batch daemon configuration

Display batch hosts

Display batch queues

Display the default batch queue

Submit a test job

Display batch jobs

For more information

Test the Platform Management Console (PMC)

Permanent LSF Licenses and FLEXlm on Windows hosts

Contents

Types of LSF licenses

FLEXlm License Management

FLEXlm license server

Existing FLEXlm server

FLEXlm license management tools

LSF license file (license.dat)

Locations of the license file

Obtaining an LSF license

Get the host name

Get the FLEXlm host ID

Updating licenses

Update an evaluation cluster

Expand an existing cluster

Upgrading to a new version of LSF

Updating LSF license features

Updating a FLEXlm License

Creating the FLEXlm service

Install the FLEXlm service

Remove the FLEXlm service

Starting the license server on Windows

Start FLEXlm automatically

Start FLEXlm manually

Checking the license server status

The lmutil lmstat command

Installing a new permanent license

LSF Default User Mapping

Contents

About LSF default user mapping

How LSF default user mapping works

Installation examples

Specifying user names

User name only

Domain name with user name

How to specify a user name with a domain name

Viewing user names

Windows user authentication

Configuring LSF default user mapping

Syntax substitution for Windows user names

LSF commands

LSF files

Environment

Contents

Job execution environment

How LSF sets the job execution environment

Environment variable handling on Windows

Controlling execution environment using job starters

Where the job starter executables are located

Charting Resources with Windows Performance Monitor

Contents

LSF Monitor statistics

Cluster information

Host information

Queue information

Job information

External information

Installing LSF Monitor

Requirements

Install LSF Monitor

Configuring LSF Monitor

In this section

Configure sample intervals

Configure external load indices

Using LSF Monitor

Start and stop LSF Monitor

View information about LSF Monitor

Uninstalling LSF Monitor

Uninstall LSF Monitor

Dynamic IP Addressing for LSF Hosts

Contents

About Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

How LSF works with dynamic IP addressing

LSF client hosts

LSF server hosts

Setup

Requirements

Configuring WINS

Configuring dynamic IP addressing

Displaying GUIs in LSF with Microsoft Terminal Services

Contents

How LSF Works with Terminal Services

Environment variables

Job submission

Limitations

Requirements

Registering the Microsoft Terminal Services Advanced Client ActiveX Control

Configuring Terminal Services for LSF

Configuring LSF to run Terminal Services jobs

Define the msts static resource

Add the msts resource to hosts

Create job starters to preserve a user's environment settings (optional)

Submitting LSF jobs to Terminal Services hosts (tssub)

Submit a job with tssub

View job output with tspeek

Monitor the job with bjobs

Limiting the number of Terminal Services jobs on a host

Configure a numeric Terminal Server resource

Submit a job with rusage

Submitting LSF jobs to Terminal Services hosts from UNIX

Submit a Terminal Services job from UNIX

Installing LSF in a Mixed Cluster

Contents

Setting up a Linux cluster with Windows compute nodes

Install the Linux cluster on a shared file system

Configure the Linux cluster

Restart the LSF cluster

Install the Windows compute node

Start the Windows compute node

Setting up a Windows cluster with Linux compute nodes


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