RE: [Moabusers] Re: [Mauiusers]SRCFG STARTTIME/ENDTIME för specific dates

[Caird, Andrew J]

To the folks at CRI:  this is what we were talking about. :)

To the other moab users: we have the same need.  Thanks for an independant vote for the same thing.

--andy
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Andrew Caird              Director of High Performance Computing
University of Michigan Engineering/Center for Advanced Computing
http://cac.engin.umich.edu     acaird at umich.edu     734.647.5273
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: moabusers-bounces at supercluster.org 
> [mailto:moabusers-bounces at supercluster.org] On Behalf Of 
> Lennart Karlsson
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:14 PM
> To: moabusers at supercluster.org
> Subject: [Moabusers] Re: [Mauiusers]SRCFG STARTTIME/ENDTIME 
> för specific dates
> 
> Dear Moab coders,
> 
> Before I write a script to dynamically add this information
> to moab.cfg from an external reservation file, I would like
> to ask you:
> 
> Is this a functionality that you would like to add as an
> internal Moab functionality, e.g. with the syntax I
> propose in my example below?
> 
> > if I want to set a administrative reservation for
> > a specific event, e.g. the 15th-16th of August this year,
> > I would like to write something like
> > 
> > SRCFG[service_01]	HOSTLIST=ALL
> > SRCFG[service_01]	STARTTIME=08:00:00_2008-08-15 
> ENDTIME=13:00:00_2008-08-16
> > SRCFG[service_01]	USERLIST=anne,fred,susan
> 
> 
> Many times we need something like this, for one-time
> special events, like tutorials and system service events.
> 
> Until now we have tried to use the existing once-a-week-syntax for
> doing this, but it gets cumbersome, because we have to remember
> to put it in the moab.cfg file in the correct week and we have to
> remember to remove it from the file before the following week.
> 
> We know about the mrsvctl command and it is not what we are
> looking for. We want to use some kind of configuration file,
> e.g. the moab.cfg file itself.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- Lennart Karlsson <Lennart.Karlsson at nsc.liu.se>
>    National Supercomputer Centre in Linkoping, Sweden
>    http://www.nsc.liu.se
> 
> 
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