[torqueusers] jobids and server names?

[Roy Dragseth]

On Friday 21 September 2007, Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:44:19AM +0200, Roy Dragseth alleged:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Is it possible to change the name string that gets attached to the jobid
> > number to anything else than the name of the server running pbs_server?
> >
> > I want to set up a cluster with login nodes and hide the real frontend
> > from the users in the following way:
> >
> > Public name: my_cluster.domain.org
> > Login node 1: my_login1.domain.org
> > Login node 2: my_login2.domain.org
> > Core node: my_cluster_core.domain.org
> >
> > my_login1 and my_login2 shall have some ip takeover mechanism for the
> > address associated with my_cluster.domain.org.
> >
> > pbs_server runs on my_cluster_core, and through the standard config all
> > jobs would have jobids like 12345.my_cluster_core.domain.org.
> > Is it possible to make the jobids look like 12345.my_cluster.domain.org
> > instead?
>
> That's the server_name server attribute that you can set with qmgr.

Thanks, that did the trick.

The server_name seems to be restricted to valid hostnames, any reason for 
that?  Does it have any meaning or is it just a string attached to the 
jobnumber?

r.

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