Moab Cluster Builder™ Administrator Guide
Overview
This guide is intended to be a reference for the system administrator for using Moab Cluster Builder and the Moab cluster deployment tools. Basic prerequisites are a general networking knowledge and some Linux adminsitration skills such as use of the command line as well as minimal concepts of clustering.
This guide does not include documentation for SLES or the other single software components that build up the software stack. Refer to Additional Help Sources for more information.
Table of Contents
Planning a Cluster with Moab Cluster Builder
Installing Moab Cluster Builder
- Layout of Scheduler Components
- Scheduling Environment and Objects
- Scheduling Iterations and Job Flow
- Create/Modify a User Profile
- Create/Modify a Group Profile
- Create/Modify an Account Profile
- Create/Modify a Class Profile
- Create/Modify a Quality of Service Profile
Prioritizing Jobs and Allocating Resources
Managing Fairness - Throttling Policies, Fairshare, and Allocation Management
Optimizing Scheduling Behavior - Backfill, Node Sets, and Preemption
Managing Shared Resources - Usage Based Limits, Policies, and SMP Issues
- Deferred Jobs and Job Holds
- Job Priority Management
- Suspend/Resume Handling
- Checkpoint/Restart
- Job Dependencies
- Job Policies and Settings
- Job Deadline Support
Troubleshooting and System Maintenance
- Internal Diagnostics
- Logging Facilities
- Object Messages
- Notifying Administrators of Failures and Critical Events
- Issues with Client Commands
- Tracking System Failures
- Problems with Individual Jobs
- Diagnostic Scripts
Enabling High Availability Features
- Role Based Authorization Security Configuration
- Host Based Authorization (Administrative Hosts)
- Access Portal Security