[torqueusers] acl_hosts oddity

[nathaniel.x.woody at gsk.com]

Thanks for the info.  I'll submit the bug later today.

I actually had no idea that  acl_hosts had any effect if acl_hosts_enable 
is set to false, is that behavior documented somewhere?  The 
pbs_server_attributes man page seems to suggest that acl_hosts is only 
used if acl_hosts_enable is set to true, though a re-reading shows that it 
is not explicit about that. 

I started messing with acl_hosts because we have two classes of clients of 
our cluster,

1) submission hosts - we don't encourage local submission of jobs and 
instead have several other servers that we have designated as submission 
hosts.  We also do this as we have some web services that use the cluster, 
so we run these services on submission host servers.

2) client (for the lack of a better name)  hosts - we also want to specify 
a number of machines that have only client (status, etc) access to the 
cluster. 

My understanding was that both submission hosts and client hosts would 
need to be in the acl_hosts list, while submission hosts would also need 
to be identified as submission hosts.  After playing around, I'm not sure 
if that's true or not.  Does providing a machine in the acl_hosts list 
allow job submission from that host?

On the wildcard point, should nate*.gsk.com work (or 
node*-hivemind.gsk.com)?  It does not appear to.  If it should, I'll play 
around a bit more as I probably got something wrong.

Thanks for the help,
Nate






"Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com> 
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Re: [torqueusers] acl_hosts oddity






Can you explain what exactly you are trying to accomplish with the 
acl_hosts
settings? There are two ways to use this that are distinctly different 
depending
on what you set acl_hosts_enable to (true or false). I.E. it is possible
to use the functionality of acl_hosts system lists for a different 
function
if acl_hosts_enable is set to false.

-----Original Message-----
>From: nathaniel.x.woody at gsk.com
>Sent: Jan 31, 2006 3:17 PM
>To: torqueusers at supercluster.org
>Subject: [torqueusers] acl_hosts oddity
>
>First of all, thank you for your previous assistance on figuring out 
>$tmpdir.  For anyone else who struggles with that, the three pieces we 
>needed were 1) running configure with "--enable-wordexp" and 2) setting 
>$tmpdir /localscratch in the mom_priv/config file and 3) setting the 
>TMPDIR environment variable to $PBS_JOBID in the job request.  Now, 
torque 
>happily creates a directory for each job that wants it and keeps all the 
>jobs seperate.  The job script just cd's to the $TMPDIR directory. 
Thanks, 
>it works quite nicely now!
>
>I have noticed something of an oddity (I think), using torque2.0.0p5 and 
>am curious if what I'm seeing is the expected behavior.  When I enable 
>acl_hosts, (qmgr "s s acl_hosts_enable=true"), this breaks torque in kind 

>of a bizarre way.  It looks like this prevents mom's from returning 
>completed job information.  I have to add compute nodes to the acl_hosts 
>list (qmgr -c "s s acl_hosts += node1") in order to get the job to 
return. 
> I suppose this means that returning the job info requires server 
services 
>that are blocked by enabling acl_hosts?
>
>Eventually, after several minutes, the job get's reported as exceeding 
the 
>wallclock time.  I get a weird "MOAB_INFO: job exceeded wallclock limit" 
>error and the job gets deleted.  I think this is just the scheduler 
>stepping in at some statjob polling interval and killing the job? 
>
>On a lark, I checked and specifying "ALLOWCOMPUTEHOSTSUBMIT true" in a 
>torque.cfg file didn't appear to have any effect on this, which it seems 
>like it should.  At this point it appears that setting that parameter 
>allows a compute node to do any operation except return a job result?
>
>If the above is the expected behavior, what kind of wildcard matching is 
>allowed in the acl_hosts list?
>
>Best,
>Nate

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