[torqueusers] downing a node via qmgr

[Brett Ellis]

Stewart,
   I have typically used

pbsnodes -o NODENAME

which may be the same as

qmgr -c 's n node-name state=offline'

to handle problematic nodes, with no issues of
them reviving...
  Brett

Stewart.Samuels at sanofi-aventis.com wrote:
> I have just experienced strange behaviour with qmgr.  We currently have 
> a node which is rebooting itself constantly.  To take the system out of 
> the cluster to diagnose the problem, I have specify the following command:
> 
>         qmgr -c 's n node-name state=down'
> 
> For a few moments, once the qmgr command is issued, subsequent "pbsnode 
> -a" commands show node-name "down".  But for some reason, it then shows 
> the node as "free" again.
> 
> Has anyone seen this behaviour?  I realize we are running a little 
> behind with the patch level, but we are running torque-1.2.0p1 and 
> maui-3.2.6p11.
> 
> When there is such a failure (this has occurred a few times in our 
> cluster), is there a way (other than qmgr) of temporarily removing nodes 
> in which deleting the node in the server_prive/nodes file and restarting 
> pbs_server using the "-t create" argument is not necessary?
> 
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