SACCTMGR(1)

NAME
sacctmgr - Used to view and modify Slurm account information.

SYNOPSIS
sacctmgr [OPTIONS...] [COMMAND...]

DESCRIPTION
sacctmgr is used to view or modify Slurm account information. The account information is maintained within a database with the interface being provided by slurmdbd (Slurm Database daemon). This database can serve as a central storehouse of user and computer information for multiple computers at a single site. Slurm account information is recorded based upon four parameters that form what is referred to as an association. These parameters are user, cluster, partition, and account. user is the login name. cluster is the name of a Slurm managed cluster as specified by the ClusterName parameter in the slurm.conf configuration file. partition is the name of a Slurm partition on that cluster. account is the bank account for a job. The intended mode of operation is to initiate the sacctmgr command, add, delete, modify, and/or list association records then commit the changes and exit.

Note:
    The content's of SLURM's database are maintained in lower case. This may result in some sacctmgr output differing from that of other SLURM commands.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Print a help message describing the usage of sacctmgr. This is equivalent to the help command.

-i, --immediate
    commit changes immediately.

-n, --noheader
    No header will be added to the beginning of the output.

-p, --parsable
    Output will be '|' delimited with a '|' at the end.

-P, --parsable2
    Output will be '|' delimited without a '|' at the end.

-Q, --quiet
    Print no messages other than error messages. This is equivalent to the quiet command.

-r, --readonly
    Makes it so the running sacctmgr cannot modify accounting information. The readonly option is for use within interactive mode.

-s, --associations
    Use with show or list to display associations with the entity. This is equivalent to the associations command.

-v, --verbose
    Enable detailed logging. This is equivalent to the verbose command.

-V , --version
    Display version number. This is equivalent to the version command.

COMMANDS

add <ENTITY> <SPECS>
    Add an entity. Identical to the create command.

associations
    Use with show or list to display associations with the entity.

create <ENTITY> <SPECS>
    Add an entity. Identical to the add command.

delete <ENTITY> where <SPECS>
    Delete the specified entities.

dump <ENTITY> <File=FILENAME>
    Dump cluster data to the specified file.

exit
    Terminate sacctmgr interactive mode. Identical to the quit command.

help
    Display a description of sacctmgr options and commands.

list <ENTITY> [<SPECS>]
    Display information about the specified entity. By default, all entries are displayed, you can narrow results by specifying SPECS in your query. Identical to the show command.

load <FILENAME>
    Load cluster data to the specified file.

modify <ENTITY> where <SPECS> set <SPECS>
    Modify an entity.

problem
    Use with show or list to display entity problems.

quiet
    Print no messages other than error messages.

quit
    Terminate the execution of sacctmgr interactive mode. Identical to the exit command.

reconfigure
    Reconfigures the SlurmDBD if running with one.

show <ENTITY> [<SPECS>]
    Display information about the specified entity. By default, all entries are displayed, you can narrow results by specifying SPECS in your query. Identical to the list command.

verbose
    Enable detailed logging. This includes time-stamps on data structures, record counts, etc. This is an independent command with no options meant for use in interactive mode.

version
    Display the version number of sacctmgr.

!!  Repeat the last command.

ENTITIES

account
    A bank account, typically specified at job submit time using the --account= option. These may be arranged in a hierarchical fashion, for example accounts chemistry and physics may be children of the account science. The hierarchy may have an arbitrary depth.

association
    The entity used to group information consisting of four parameters: account, cluster, partition (optional), and user. Used only with the list or show command. Add, modify, and delete should be done to a user, account or cluster entity. This will in-turn update the underlying associations.

cluster
    The ClusterName parameter in the slurm.conf configuration file, used to differentiate accounts from on different machines.

configuration
    Used only with the list or show command to report current system configuration.

coordinator
    A special privileged user usually an account manager or such that can add users or sub accounts to the account they are coordinator over. This should be a trusted person since they can change limits on account and user associations inside their realm.

event
    Events like downed or draining nodes on clusters.

job Job - but only two specific fields of the job: Derived Exit Code and the Comment String

qos Quality of Service.

Resource
    Software resources for the system. Those are software licenses shared among clusters.

transaction
    List of transactions that have occurred during a given time period.

user
    The login name.

wckeys
    Workload Characterization Key. An arbitrary string for grouping orthogonal accounts.

GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATION BASED ENTITIES
NOTE: The group limits (GrpJobs, GrpNodes, etc.) are tested when a job is being considered for being allocated resources. If starting a job would cause any of its group limit to be exceeded, that job will not be considered for scheduling even if that job might preempt other jobs which would release sufficient group resources for the pending job to be initiated.

DefaultQOS=<default qos>
    The default QOS this association and its children should have. This is overridden if set directly on a user. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: When read in from the slurmctld the default qos is checked against and if the default qos isn't in the list of valid QOS for that association and the association only has access to 1 QOS that will become the default, otherwise, no default will be set. This should only happen when removing a QOS from a <= 2.1 sacctmgr.

Fairshare=<fairshare number | parent>
    Number used in conjunction with other accounts to determine job priority. Can also be the string parent, when used on a user this means that the parent association is used for fairshare. If Fairshare=parent is set on an account, that account's children will be effectively reparented for fairshare calculations to the first parent of their parent that is not Fairshare=parent. Limits remain the same, only it's fairshare value is affected. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

GraceTime=<preemption grace time in seconds>
    Specifies, in units of seconds, the preemption grace time to be extended to a job which has been selected for preemption. The default value is zero, no preemption grace time is allowed on this QOS.

NOTE: This value is only meaningful for QOS PreemptMode=CANCEL)

GrpCPUMins=<max cpu minutes>
    The total number of cpu minutes that can possibly be used by past, present and future jobs running from this association and its children. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: This limit is not enforced if set on the root association of a cluster. So even though it may appear in sacctmgr output, it will not be enforced.

ALSO NOTE: This limit only applies when using the Priority Multifactor plugin. The time is decayed using the value of PriorityDecayHalfLife or PriorityUsageResetPeriod as set in the slurm.conf. When this limit is reached all associated jobs running will be killed and all future jobs submitted with associations in the group will be delayed until they are able to run inside the limit.

GrpCPURunMins=<max cpu run minutes>
    Used to limit the combined total number of CPU minutes used by all jobs running with this association and its children. This takes into consideration time limit of running jobs and consumes it, if the limit is reached no new jobs are started until other jobs finish to allow time to free up.

GrpCPUs=<max cpus>
    Maximum number of CPUs running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: This limit only applies fully when using the Select Consumable Resource plugin.

GrpJobs=<max jobs>
    Maximum number of running jobs in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

GrpMemory=<max memory (MB) >
    Maximum amount of memory running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: This limit only applies fully when using the Select Consumable Resource plugin.

GrpNodes=<max nodes>
    Maximum number of nodes running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: Each job's node allocation is counted separately (i.e. if a single node has resources allocated to two jobs, this is counted as two allocated nodes).

GrpSubmitJobs=<max jobs>
    Maximum number of jobs which can be in a pending or running state at any time in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

GrpWall=<max wall>
    Maximum wall clock time running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: This limit is not enforced if set on the root association of a cluster. So even though it may appear in sacctmgr output, it will not be enforced.

ALSO NOTE: This limit only applies when using the Priority Multifactor plugin. The time is decayed using the value of PriorityDecayHalfLife or PriorityUsageResetPeriod as set in the slurm.conf. When this limit is reached all associated jobs running will be killed and all future jobs submitted with associations in the group will be delayed until they are able to run inside the limit.

MaxCPUMins=<max cpu minutes>
    Maximum number of CPU minutes each job is able to use in this association. This is overridden if set directly on a user. Default is the cluster's limit. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MaxCPUs=<max cpus>
    Maximum number of CPUs each job is able to use in this association. This is overridden if set directly on a user. Default is the cluster's limit. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: This limit only applies fully when using the Select Consumable Resource plugin.

MaxJobs=<max jobs>
    Maximum number of jobs each user is allowed to run at one time in this association. This is overridden if set directly on a user. Default is the cluster's limit. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MaxNodes=<max nodes>
    Maximum number of nodes each job is able to use in this association. This is overridden if set directly on a user. Default is the cluster's limit. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1. This is a c-node limit on BlueGene systems.

MaxSubmitJobs=<max jobs>
    Maximum number of jobs which can this association can have in a pending or running state at any time. Default is the cluster's limit. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MaxWall=<max wall>
    Maximum wall clock time each job is able to use in this association. This is overridden if set directly on a user. Default is the cluster's limit. <max wall> format is <min> or <min>:<sec> or <hr>:<min>:<sec> or <days>-<hr>:<min>:<sec> or <days>-<hr>. The value is recorded in minutes with rounding as needed. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: Changing this value will have no effect on any running or pending job.

QosLevel<operator><comma separated list of qos names>
    Specify the default Quality of Service's that jobs are able to run at for this association. To get a list of valid QOS's use 'sacctmgr list qos'. This value will override its parents value and push down to its children as the new default. Setting a QosLevel to '' (two single quotes with nothing between them) restores its default setting. You can also use the operator += and -= to add or remove certain QOS's from a QOS list. Valid <operator> values include:

    =   Set QosLevel to the specified value. Note: the QOS that can be used at a given account in the hierarchy are inherited by the children of that account. By assigning QOS with the = sign only the assigned QOS can be used by the account and its childern.

    +=  Add the specified <qos> value to the current QosLevel. The account will have access to this QOS and the other previously assigned to it.

    -=  Remove the specified <qos> value from the current QosLevel.

See the EXAMPLES section below.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR ACCOUNTS

Cluster=<cluster>
    Specific cluster to add account to. Default is all in system.

Description=<description>
    An arbitrary string describing an account.

Name=<name>
    The name of a bank account. Note the name must be unique and can not be represent different bank accounts at different points in the account hierarchy.

Organization=<org>
    Organization to which the account belongs.

Parent=<parent>
    Parent account of this account. Default is the root account, a top level account.

RawUsage=<value>
    This allows an administrator to reset the raw usage accrued to an account. The only value currently supported is 0 (zero). This is a settable specification only - it cannot be used as a filter to list accounts.

WithAssoc
    Display all associations for this account.

WithCoord
    Display all coordinators for this account.

WithDeleted
    Display information with previously deleted data.

NOTE: If using the WithAssoc option you can also query against association specific information to view only certain associations this account may have. These extra options can be found in the SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATIONS section. You can also use the general specifications list above in the GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATION BASED ENTITIES section.

LIST/SHOW ACCOUNT FORMAT OPTIONS

Account
    The name of a bank account.

Description
    An arbitrary string describing an account.

Organization
    Organization to which the account belongs.

Coordinators
    List of users that are a coordinator of the account. (Only filled in when using the WithCoordinator option.)

NOTE: If using the WithAssoc option you can also view the information about the various associations the account may have on all the clusters in the system. The Association format fields are described in the LIST/SHOW ASSOCIATION FORMAT OPTIONS section.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATIONS

Clusters=<comma separated list of cluster names>
    List the associations of the cluster(s).

Accounts=<comma separated list of account names>
    List the associations of the account(s).

Users=<comma separated list of user names>
    List the associations of the user(s).

Partition=<comma separated list of partition names>
    List the associations of the partition(s).

NOTE: You can also use the general specifications list above in the GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATION BASED ENTITIES section. Other options unique for listing associations:

OnlyDefaults
    Display only associations that are default associations

Tree
    Display account names in a hierarchical fashion.

WithDeleted
    Display information with previously deleted data.

WithSubAccounts
    Display information with subaccounts. Only really valuable when used with the account= option. This will display all the subaccount associations along with the accounts listed in the option.

WOLimits
    Display information without limit information. This is for a smaller default format of Cluster,Account,User,Partition

WOPInfo
    Display information without parent information. (i.e. parent id, and parent account name.) This option also invokes WOPLIMITS.

WOPLimits
    Display information without hierarchical parent limits. (i.e. will only display limits where they are set instead of propagating them from the parent.)

LIST/SHOW ASSOCIATION FORMAT OPTIONS

Account
    The name of a bank account in the association.

Cluster
    The name of a cluster in the association.

DefaultQOS
    The QOS the association will use by default if it as access to it in the QOS list mentioned below.

Fairshare
    Number used in conjunction with other accounts to determine job priority. Can also be the string parent, when used on a user this means that the parent association is used for fairshare. If Fairshare=parent is set on an account, that account's children will be effectively reparented for fairshare calculations to the first parent of their parent that is not Fairshare=parent. Limits remain the same, only it's fairshare value is affected.

GrpCPUMins
    The total number of cpu minutes that can possibly be used by past, present and future jobs running from this association and its children.

GrpCPURunMins
    Used to limit the combined total number of CPU minutes used by all jobs running with this association and its children. This takes into consideration time limit of running jobs and consumes it, if the limit is reached no new jobs are started until other jobs finish to allow time to free up.

GrpCPUs
    Maximum number of CPUs running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpJobs
    Maximum number of running jobs in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpNodes
    Maximum number of nodes running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

NOTE: Each job's node allocation is counted separately (i.e. if a single node has resources allocated to two jobs, this is counted as two allocated nodes).

GrpSubmitJobs
    Maximum number of jobs which can be in a pending or running state at any time in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpWall
    Maximum wall clock time running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

ID  The id of the association.

LFT Associations are kept in a hierarchy: this is the left most spot in the hierarchy. When used with the RGT variable, all associations with a LFT inside this LFT and before the RGT are children of this association.

MaxCPUMins
    Maximum number of CPU minutes each job is able to use.

MaxCPUs
    Maximum number of CPUs each job is able to use.

MaxJobs
    Maximum number of jobs each user is allowed to run at one time.

MaxNodes
    Maximum number of nodes each job is able to use.

MaxSubmitJobs
    Maximum number of jobs pending or running state at any time.

MaxWall
    Maximum wall clock time each job is able to use.

Qos Valid QOS' for this association.

ParentID
    The association id of the parent of this association.

ParentName
    The account name of the parent of this association.

Partition
    The name of a partition in the association.

RawQOS
    The numeric values of valid QOS' for this association.

RGT Associations are kept in a hierarchy: this is the right most spot in the hierarchy. When used with the LFT variable, all associations with a LFT inside this RGT and after the LFT are children of this association.

User
    The name of a user in the association.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR CLUSTERS

Classification=<classification>
    Type of machine, current classifications are capability and capacity.

Flags=<flag list>
    Comma separated list of Attributes for a particular cluster. Current Flags include AIX, BGL, BGP, BGQ, Bluegene, CrayXT, FrontEnd, MultipleSlurmd, SunConstellation, and XCPU

Name=<name>
    The name of a cluster. This should be equal to the ClusterName parameter in the slurm.conf configuration file for some Slurm-managed cluster.

RPC=<rpc list>
    Comma separated list of numeric RPC values.

WOLimits
    Display information without limit information. This is for a smaller default format of Cluster,ControlHost,ControlPort,RPC

NOTE: You can also use the general specifications list above in the GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATION BASED ENTITIES section.

LIST/SHOW CLUSTER FORMAT OPTIONS

Classification
    Type of machine, i.e. capability or capacity.

Cluster
    The name of the cluster.

ControlHost
    When a slurmctld registers with the database the ip address of the controller is placed here.

ControlPort
    When a slurmctld registers with the database the port the controller is listening on is placed here.

CPUCount
    The current count of cpus on the cluster.

Flags
    Attributes possessed by the cluster.

NodeCount
    The current count of nodes associated with the cluster.

NodeNames
    The current Nodes associated with the cluster.

PluginIDSelect
    The numeric value of the select plugin the cluster is using.

RPC When a slurmctld registers with the database the rpc version the controller is running is placed here.

NOTE: You can also view the information about the root association for the cluster. The Association format fields are described in the LIST/SHOW ASSOCIATION FORMAT OPTIONS section.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR COORDINATOR

Account=<comma separated list of account names>
    Account name to add this user as a coordinator to.

Names=<comma separated list of user names>
    Names of coordinators.

NOTE: To list coordinators use the WithCoordinator options with list account or list user.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR EVENTS

All_Clusters
    Get information on all cluster shortcut.

All_Time
    Get time period for all time shortcut.

Clusters=<comma separated list of cluster names>
    List the events of the cluster(s). Default is the cluster where the command was run.

End=<OPT>
    Period ending of events. Default is now. Valid time formats are...

    HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM]
    MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY]
    MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS]
    YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]

Event=<OPT>
    Specific events to look for, valid options are Cluster or Node, default is both.

MaxCPUs=<OPT>
    Max number of cpus affected by an event.

MinCPUs=<OPT>
    Min number of cpus affected by an event.

Nodes=<comma separated list of node names>
    Node names affected by an event.

Reason=<comma separated list of reasons>
    Reason an event happened.

Start=<OPT>
    Period start of events. Default is 00:00:00 of previous day, unless states are given with the States= spec events. If this is the case the default behavior is to return events currently in the states specified. Valid time formats are...

    HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM]
    MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY]
    MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS]
    YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]

States=<comma separated list of states>
    State of a node in a node event. If this is set, the event type is set automatically to Node.

User=<comma separated list of users>
    Query against users who set the event. If this is set, the event type is set automatically to Node since only user slurm can perform a cluster event.

LIST/SHOW EVENT FORMAT OPTIONS

Cluster
    The name of the cluster event happened on.

ClusterNodes
    The hostlist of nodes on a cluster in a cluster event.

CPUs
    Number of cpus involved with the event.

Duration
    Time period the event was around for.

End Period when event ended.

Event
    Name of the event.

EventRaw
    Numeric value of the name of the event.

NodeName
    The node affected by the event. In a cluster event, this is blank.

Reason
    The reason an event happened.

Start
    Period when event started.

State
    On a node event this is the formatted state of the node during the event.

StateRaw
    On a node event this is the numeric value of the state of the node during the event.

User
    On a node event this is the user who caused the event to happen.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR JOB

DerivedExitCode
    The derived exit code can be modified after a job completes based on the user's judgement of whether the job succeeded or failed. The user can only modify the derived exit code of their own job.

Comment
    The job's comment string when the AccountingStoreJobComment parameter in the slurm.conf file is set (or defaults) to YES. The user can only modify the comment string of their own job.

The DerivedExitCode and Comment fields are the only fields
    of a job record in the database that can be modified after job completion.

LIST/SHOW JOB FORMAT OPTIONS
The sacct command is the exclusive command to display job records from the SLURM database.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR QOS
NOTE: The group limits (GrpJobs, GrpNodes, etc.) are tested when a job is being considered for being allocated resources. If starting a job would cause any of its group limit to be exceeded, that job will not be considered for scheduling even if that job might preempt other jobs which would release sufficient group resources for the pending job to be initiated.

Flags
    Used by the slurmctld to override or enforce certain characteristics.
    Valid options are

    DenyOnLimit
        If set jobs using this QOS will be rejected at submission time if they do not conform to the QOS 'Max' limits. By default jobs that go over these limits will pend until they conform.

    EnforceUsageThreshold
        If set, and the QOS also has a UsageThreshold, any jobs submitted with this QOS that fall below the UsageThreshold will be held until their Fairshare Usage goes above the Threshold.

    NoReserve
        If this flag is set and backfill scheduling is used, jobs using this QOS will not reserve resources in the backfill schedule's map of resources allocated through time. This flag is intended for use with a QOS that may be preempted by jobs associated with all other QOS (e.g use with a "standby" QOS). If the allocated is used with a QOS which can not be preempted by all other QOS, it could result in starvation of larger jobs.

    PartitionMaxNodes
        If set jobs using this QOS will be able to override the requested partition's MaxNodes limit.

    PartitionMinNodes
        If set jobs using this QOS will be able to override the requested partition's MinNodes limit.

    PartitionQOS
        If set jobs using this QOS will be able to override any limits used by the the requested partition's QOS limits.

    PartitionTimeLimit
        If set jobs using this QOS will be able to override the requested partition's TimeLimit.

    RequiresReservaton
        If set jobs using this QOS must designate a reservation when submitting a job. This option can be useful in restricting usage of a QOS that may have greater preemptive capability or additional resources to be allowed only within a reservation.

GraceTime
    Preemption grace time to be extended to a job which has been selected for preemption.

GrpCPUMins
    The total number of cpu minutes that can possibly be used by past, present and future jobs running from this QOS.

GrpCPURunMins Used to limit the combined total number of CPU
    minutes used by all jobs running with this QOS. This takes into consideration time limit of running jobs and consumes it, if the limit is reached no new jobs are started until other jobs finish to allow time to free up.

GrpCPUs
    Maximum number of CPUs running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this QOS.

GrpJobs
    Maximum number of running jobs in aggregate for this QOS.

GrpNodes
    Maximum number of nodes running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this QOS.

NOTE: Each job's node allocation is counted separately (i.e. if a single node has resources allocated to two jobs, this is counted as two allocated nodes).

GrpSubmitJobs
    Maximum number of jobs which can be in a pending or running state at any time in aggregate for this QOS.

GrpWall
    Maximum wall clock time running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this QOS. If this limit is reached submission requests will be denied and the running jobs will be killed.

ID  The id of the QOS.

MaxCPUMins
    Maximum number of CPU minutes each job is able to use.

MaxCPUs
    Maximum number of CPUs each job is able to use.

MaxCpusPerUser
    Maximum number of CPUs each user is able to use.

MaxJobs
    Maximum number of jobs each user is allowed to run at one time.

MaxNodes
    Maximum number of nodes each job is able to use.

MinCPUs
    Minimum number of CPUs each job running under this QOS must request. Otherwise the job will pend until modified.

MaxNodesPerUser
    Maximum number of nodes each user is able to use.

NOTE: Each job's node allocation is counted separately (i.e. if a single node has resources allocated to two jobs, this is counted as two allocated nodes).

MaxSubmitJobs
    Maximum number of jobs pending or running state at any time per user.

MaxWall
    Maximum wall clock time each job is able to use.

Name
    Name of the QOS.

Preempt
    Other QOS' this QOS can preempt.

PreemptMode
    Mechanism used to preempt jobs of this QOS if the clusters PreemptType is configured to preempt/qos. The default preemption mechanism is specified by the cluster-wide PreemptMode configuration parameter. Possible values are "Cluster" (meaning use cluster default), "Cancel", "Checkpoint" and "Requeue". This option is not compatible with PreemptMode=OFF or PreemptMode=SUSPEND (i.e. preempted jobs must be removed from the resources).

Priority
    What priority will be added to a job's priority when using this QOS.

RawUsage=<value>
    This allows an administrator to reset the raw usage accrued to a QOS. The only value currently supported is 0 (zero). This is a settable specification only - it cannot be used as a filter to list accounts.

UsageFactor
    Usage factor when running with this QOS

UsageThreshold
    A float representing the lowest fairshare of an association allowable to run a job. If an association falls below this threshold and has pending jobs or submits new jobs those jobs will be held until the usage goes back above the threshold. Use sshare to see current shares on the system.

WithDeleted
    Display information with previously deleted data.

LIST/SHOW QOS FORMAT OPTIONS

Description
    An arbitrary string describing a QOS.

GraceTime
    Preemption grace time to be extended to a job which has been selected for preemption in the format of hh:mm:ss. The default value is zero, no preemption grace time is allowed on this partition. NOTE: This value is only meaningful for QOS PreemptMode=CANCEL.

GrpCPUMins
    The total number of cpu minutes that can possibly be used by past, present and future jobs running from this QOS. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1. NOTE: This limit only applies when using the Priority Multifactor plugin. The time is decayed using the value of PriorityDecayHalfLife or PriorityUsageResetPeriod as set in the slurm.conf. When this limit is reached all associated jobs running will be killed and all future jobs submitted with this QOS will be delayed until they are able to run inside the limit.

GrpCPUs
    Maximum number of CPUs running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this QOS. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1. (NOTE: This limit is not currently enforced in SLURM. You can still set this, but have to wait for future versions of SLURM before it is enforced.)

GrpJobs
    Maximum number of running jobs in aggregate for this QOS. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

GrpNodes
    Maximum number of nodes running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this QOS. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: Each job's node allocation is counted separately (i.e. if a single node has resources allocated to two jobs, this is counted as two allocated nodes).

GrpSubmitJobs
    Maximum number of jobs which can be in a pending or running state at any time in aggregate for this QOS. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

GrpWall
    Maximum wall clock time running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this QOS. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1. NOTE: This limit only applies when using the Priority Multifactor plugin. The time is decayed using the value of PriorityDecayHalfLife or PriorityUsageResetPeriod as set in the slurm.conf. When this limit is reached all associated jobs running will be killed and all future jobs submitted with this QOS will be delayed until they are able to run inside the limit.

MaxCPUMins
    Maximum number of CPU minutes each job is able to use. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MaxCPUs
    Maximum number of CPUs each job is able to use. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1. (NOTE: This limit is not currently enforced in SLURM. You can still set this, but have to wait for future versions of SLURM before it is enforced.)

MaxCpusPerUser
    Maximum number of CPUs each user is able to use. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MaxJobs
    Maximum number of jobs each user is allowed to run at one time. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MaxNodes
    Maximum number of nodes each job is able to use. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MaxNodesPerUser
    Maximum number of nodes each user is able to use. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

NOTE: Each job's node allocation is counted separately (i.e. if a single node has resources allocated to two jobs, this is counted as two allocated nodes).

MaxSubmitJobs
    Maximum number of jobs pending or running state at any time per user. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MaxWall
    Maximum wall clock time each job is able to use. <max wall> format is <min> or <min>:<sec> or <hr>:<min>:<sec> or <days>-<hr>:<min>:<sec> or <days>-<hr>. The value is recorded in minutes with rounding as needed. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

MinCPUs
    Minimum number of CPUs each job running under this QOS must request. Otherwise the job will pend until modified. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

Name
    Name of the QOS. Needed for creation.

Preempt
    Other QOS' this QOS can preempt. Setting a Preempt to '' (two single quotes with nothing between them) restores its default setting. You can also use the operator += and -= to add or remove certain QOS's from a QOS list.

PreemptMode
    Mechanism used to preempt jobs of this QOS if the clusters PreemptType is configured to preempt/qos. The default preemption mechanism is specified by the cluster-wide PreemptMode configuration parameter. Possible values are "Cluster" (meaning use cluster default), "Cancel", "Checkpoint" and "Requeue". This option is not compatible with PreemptMode=OFF or PreemptMode=SUSPEND (i.e. preempted jobs must be removed from the resources).

Priority
    What priority will be added to a job's priority when using this QOS. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

UsageFactor
    Usage factor when running with this QOS. This is a float that is factored into the time of running jobs. e.g. if the usagefactor of a QOS was 2 for every cpu second a job ran it would count for 2. Also if the usagefactor was .5 every second would only could for half the time. Setting this value to 0 will make it so any job running will not add time to fairshare or association/qos limits. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with a new value of -1.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR RESOURCE
Clusters=<name list> Comma separated list of cluster names on which specified resources are to be available. If no names are designated the all clusters already allowed to use this resource will be altered.

Count=<OPT>
    Number of software resources of a specific name configured on the system being controlled by a resource manager.

Description=
    A brief description of the resource.

Flags=<OPT>
    Flags that identify specific attributes of the system resource. At this time no flags have been defined.

ServerType=<OPT>
    The type of a software resource manager providing the licenses. For example FlexNext Publisher Flexlm license server or Reprise License Manager RLM.

Names=<OPT>
    Comma separated list of the name of a resource configured on the system being controlled by a resource manager. If this resource is seen on the slurmctld it's name will be name@server to distinguish it from local resources defined in a slurm.conf.

PercentAllowed=<percent allowed>
    Percentage of a specific resource that can be used on specified cluster.

Server=<OPT>
    The name of the server serving up the resource. Default is 'slurmdb' indicating the licenses are being served by the database.

Type=<OPT>
    The type of the resource represented by this record. Currently the only valid type is License.

NOTE: Resource is used to define each resource configured on a system available for usage by Slurm clusters.

LIST/SHOW RESOURCE FORMAT OPTIONS

Cluster
    Name of cluster resource is given to.

Count
    The count of a specific resource configured on the system globally.

Allocated
    The percent of licenses allocated to a cluster.

Description
    Description of the resource.

ServerType
    The type of the server controlling the licenses.

Name
    Name of this resource.

Server
    Server serving up the resource.

Type
    Type of resource this record represents.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR TRANSACTIONS

Accounts=<comma separated list of account names>
    Only print out the transactions affecting specified accounts.

Action=<Specific action the list will display>

Actor=<Specific name the list will display>
    Only display transactions done by a certain person.

Clusters=<comma separated list of cluster names>
    Only print out the transactions affecting specified clusters.

End=<Date and time of last transaction to return>
    Return all transactions before this Date and time. Default is now.

Start=<Date and time of first transaction to return>
    Return all transactions after this Date and time. Default is epoch. Valid time formats for End and Start are...

    HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM]
    MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY]
    MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS]
    YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]

Users=<comma separated list of user names>
    Only print out the transactions affecting specified users.

WithAssoc
    Get information about which associations were affected by the transactions.

LIST/SHOW TRANSACTIONS FORMAT OPTIONS

Action

Actor

Info

TimeStamp

Where

NOTE: If using the WithAssoc option you can also view the information about the various associations the transaction affected. The Association format fields are described in the LIST/SHOW ASSOCIATION FORMAT OPTIONS section.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR USERS

Account=<account>
    Account name to add this user to.

AdminLevel=<level>
    Admin level of user. Valid levels are None, Operator, and Admin.

Cluster=<cluster>
    Specific cluster to add user to the account on. Default is all in system.

DefaultAccount=<account>
    Identify the default bank account name to be used for a job if none is specified at submission time.

DefaultWCKey=<defaultwckey>
    Identify the default Workload Characterization Key.

Name=<name>
    Name of user.

Partition=<name>
    Partition name.

RawUsage=<value>
    This allows an administrator to reset the raw usage accrued to a user. The only value currently supported is 0 (zero). This is a settable specification only - it cannot be used as a filter to list users.

WCKeys=<wckeys>
    Workload Characterization Key values.

WithAssoc
    Display all associations for this user.

WithCoord
    Display all accounts a user is coordinator for.

WithDeleted
    Display information with previously deleted data.

NOTE: If using the WithAssoc option you can also query against association specific information to view only certain associations this account may have. These extra options can be found in the SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATIONS section. You can also use the general specifications list above in the GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATION BASED ENTITIES section.

LIST/SHOW USER FORMAT OPTIONS

AdminLevel
    Admin level of user.

DefaultAccount
    The user's default account.

Coordinators
    List of users that are a coordinator of the account. (Only filled in when using the WithCoordinator option.)

User
    The name of a user.

NOTE: If using the WithAssoc option you can also view the information about the various associations the user may have on all the clusters in the system. The Association format fields are described in the LIST/SHOW ASSOCIATION FORMAT OPTIONS section.

LIST/SHOW WCKey

WCKey
    Workload Characterization Key.

Cluster
    Specific cluster for the WCKey.

User
    The name of a user for the WCKey.

NOTE: If using the WithAssoc option you can also view the information about the various associations the user may have on all the clusters in the system. The Association format fields are described in the LIST/SHOW ASSOCIATION FORMAT OPTIONS section.

GLOBAL FORMAT OPTION
When using the format option for listing various fields you can put a %NUMBER afterwards to specify how many characters should be printed. e.g. format=name%30 will print 30 characters of field name right justified. A -30 will print 30 characters left justified.

FLAT FILE DUMP AND LOAD
sacctmgr has the capability to load and dump SLURM association data to and from a file. This method can easily add a new cluster or copy an existing clusters associations into a new cluster with similar accounts. Each file contains SLURM association data for a single cluster. Comments can be put into the file with the # character. Each line of information must begin with one of the four titles; Cluster, Parent, Account or User. Following the title is a space, dash, space, entity value, then specifications. Specifications are colon separated. If any variable such as Organization has a space in it, surround the name with single or double quotes. To create a file of associations one can run > sacctmgr dump tux file=tux.cfg
(file=tux.cfg is optional) To load a previously created file you can run > sacctmgr load file=tux.cfg Other options for load are - clean - delete what was already there and start from scratch with this information.
Cluster= - specify a different name for the cluster than that which is in the file. Quick explanation how the file works. Since the associations in the system follow a hierarchy, so does the file. Anything that is a parent needs to be defined before any children. The only exception is the understood 'root' account. This is always a default for any cluster and does not need to be defined. To edit/create a file start with a cluster line for the new cluster Cluster - cluster_name:MaxNodesPerJob=15 Anything included on this line will be the defaults for all associations on this cluster. These options are as follows...

GrpCPUMins=
    The total number of cpu minutes that can possibly be used by past, present and future jobs running from this association and its children.

GrpCPURunMins=
    Used to limit the combined total number of CPU minutes used by all jobs running with this association and its children. This takes into consideration time limit of running jobs and consumes it, if the limit is reached no new jobs are started until other jobs finish to allow time to free up.

GrpCPUs=
    Maximum number of CPUs running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpJobs=
    Maximum number of running jobs in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpNodes=
    Maximum number of nodes running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

NOTE: Each job's node allocation is counted separately (i.e. if a single node has resources allocated to two jobs, this is counted as two allocated nodes).

GrpSubmitJobs=
    Maximum number of jobs which can be in a pending or running state at any time in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpWall=
    Maximum wall clock time running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

FairShare=
    Number used in conjunction with other associations to determine job priority.

MaxJobs=
    Maximum number of jobs the children of this association can run.

MaxNodesPerJob=
    Maximum number of nodes per job the children of this association can run.

MaxWallDurationPerJob=
    Maximum time (not related to job size) children of this accounts jobs can run.

QOS=
    Comma separated list of Quality of Service names (Defined in sacctmgr).

Followed by Accounts you want in this fashion...
    Parent - root (Defined by default)
    Account - cs:MaxNodesPerJob=5:MaxJobs=4:FairShare=399:MaxWallDurationPerJob=40:Description='Computer Science':Organization='LC'
    Parent - cs
    Account - test:MaxNodesPerJob=1:MaxJobs=1:FairShare=1:MaxWallDurationPerJob=1:Description='Test Account':Organization='Test'

Any of the options after a ':' can be left out and they can be in any order.
    If you want to add any sub accounts just list the Parent THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN CREATED before the account line in this fashion...

All account options are

Description=
    A brief description of the account.

GrpCPUMins=
    Maximum number of CPU hours running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association. GrpCPURunMins= Used to limit the combined total number of CPU minutes used by all jobs running with this association and its children. This takes into consideration time limit of running jobs and consumes it, if the limit is reached no new jobs are started until other jobs finish to allow time to free up.

GrpCPUs=
    Maximum number of CPUs running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpJobs=
    Maximum number of running jobs in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpNodes=
    Maximum number of nodes running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

NOTE: Each job's node allocation is counted separately (i.e. if a single node has resources allocated to two jobs, this is counted as two allocated nodes).

GrpSubmitJobs=
    Maximum number of jobs which can be in a pending or running state at any time in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

GrpWall=
    Maximum wall clock time running jobs are able to be allocated in aggregate for this association and all associations which are children of this association.

FairShare=
    Number used in conjunction with other associations to determine job priority.

MaxJobs=
    Maximum number of jobs the children of this association can run.

MaxNodesPerJob=
    Maximum number of nodes per job the children of this association can run.

MaxWallDurationPerJob=
    Maximum time (not related to job size) children of this accounts jobs can run.

Organization=
    Name of organization that owns this account.

QOS(=,+=,-=)
    Comma separated list of Quality of Service names (Defined in sacctmgr).

To add users to a account add a line like this after a Parent - line
    Parent - test
    User - adam:MaxNodesPerJob=2:MaxJobs=3:FairShare=1:MaxWallDurationPerJob=1:AdminLevel=Operator:Coordinator='test'

All user options are

AdminLevel=
    Type of admin this user is (Administrator, Operator)
    Must be defined on the first occurrence of the user.

Coordinator=
    Comma separated list of accounts this user is coordinator over
    Must be defined on the first occurrence of the user.

DefaultAccount=
    system wide default account name
    Must be defined on the first occurrence of the user.

FairShare=
    Number used in conjunction with other associations to determine job priority.

MaxJobs=
    Maximum number of jobs this user can run.

MaxNodesPerJob=
    Maximum number of nodes per job this user can run.

MaxWallDurationPerJob=
    Maximum time (not related to job size) this user can run.

QOS(=,+=,-=)
    Comma separated list of Quality of Service names (Defined in sacctmgr).

ARCHIVE FUNCTIONALITY
Sacctmgr has the capability to archive to a flatfile and or load that data if needed later. The archiving is usually done by the slurmdbd and it is highly recommended you only do it through sacctmgr if you completely understand what you are doing. For slurmdbd options see "man slurmdbd" for more information. Loading data into the database can be done from these files to either view old data or regenerate rolled up data. These are the options for both dump and load of archive information. archive dump

Directory=
    Directory to store the archive data.

Events
    Archive Events. If not specified and PurgeEventAfter is set all event data removed will be lost permanently.

Jobs
    Archive Jobs. If not specified and PurgeJobAfter is set all job data removed will be lost permanently.

PurgeEventAfter=
    Purge cluster event records older than time stated in months. If you want to purge on a shorter time period you can include hours, or days behind the numeric value to get those more frequent purges. (e.g. a value of '12hours' would purge everything older than 12 hours.)

PurgeJobAfter=
    Purge job records older than time stated in months. If you want to purge on a shorter time period you can include hours, or days behind the numeric value to get those more frequent purges. (e.g. a value of '12hours' would purge everything older than 12 hours.)

PurgeStepAfter=
    Purge step records older than time stated in months. If you want to purge on a shorter time period you can include hours, or days behind the numeric value to get those more frequent purges. (e.g. a value of '12hours' would purge everything older than 12 hours.)

PurgeSuspendAfter=
    Purge job suspend records older than time stated in months. If you want to purge on a shorter time period you can include hours, or days behind the numeric value to get those more frequent purges. (e.g. a value of '12hours' would purge everything older than 12 hours.)

Script=
    Run this script instead of the generic form of archive to flat files.

Steps
    Archive Steps. If not specified and PurgeStepAfter is set all step data removed will be lost permanently.

Suspend
    Archive Suspend Data. If not specified and PurgeSuspendAfter is set all suspend data removed will be lost permanently.
archive load

File=
    File to load into database.

Insert=
    SQL to insert directly into the database. This should be used very cautiously since this is writing your sql into the database.

EXAMPLES
NOTE: There is an order to set up accounting associations. You must define clusters before you add accounts and you must add accounts before you can add users.
-> sacctmgr create cluster tux
-> sacctmgr create account name=science fairshare=50
-> sacctmgr create account name=chemistry parent=science fairshare=30
-> sacctmgr create account name=physics parent=science fairshare=20
-> sacctmgr create user name=adam cluster=tux account=physics fairshare=10
-> sacctmgr delete user name=adam cluster=tux account=physics
-> sacctmgr delete account name=physics cluster=tux
-> sacctmgr modify user where name=adam cluster=tux account=physics set
  maxjobs=2 maxwall=30:00
-> sacctmgr list associations cluster=tux format=Account,Cluster,User,Fairshare tree withd
-> sacctmgr list transactions StartTime=11/03-10:30:00 format=Timestamp,Action,Actor
-> sacctmgr dump cluster=tux file=tux_data_file
-> sacctmgr load tux_data_file
A user's account can not be changed directly. A new association needs to be created for the user with the new account. Then the association with the old account can be deleted.
When modifying an object placing the key words 'set' and the optional 'where' is critical to perform correctly below are examples to produce correct results. As a rule of thumb anything you put in front of the set will be used as a quantifier. If you want to put a quantifier after the key word 'set' you should use the key word 'where'.
wrong-> sacctmgr modify user name=adam set fairshare=10 cluster=tux
This will produce an error as the above line reads modify user adam set fairshare=10 and cluster=tux.
right-> sacctmgr modify user name=adam cluster=tux set fairshare=10
right-> sacctmgr modify user name=adam set fairshare=10 where cluster=tux
When changing qos for something only use the '=' operator when wanting to explicitly set the qos to something. In most cases you will want to use the '+=' or '-=' operator to either add to or remove from the existing qos already in place.
If a user already has qos of normal,standby for a parent or it was explicitly set you should use qos+=expedite to add this to the list in this fashion.
If you are looking to only add the qos expedite to only a certain account and or cluster you can do that by specifying them in the sacctmgr line.
-> sacctmgr modify user name=adam set qos+=expedite
> sacctmgr modify user name=adam acct=this cluster=tux set qos+=expedite
Let's give an example how to add QOS to user accounts. List all available QOSs in the cluster.
->sacctmgr show qos format=name
      Name
  ---------
    normal
  expedite
List all the associations in the cluster.
->sacctmgr show assoc format=cluster,account,qos
   Cluster Account QOS
  -------- ---------- -----
  zebra root normal
  zebra root normal
  zebra g normal
  zebra g1 normal
Add the QOS expedite to account G1 and display the result. Using the operator += the QOS will be added together with the existing QOS to this account.
->sacctmgr modify account name=g1 set qos+=expedite
->sacctmgr show assoc format=cluster,account,qos
   Cluster Account QOS
   -------- -------- -------
   zebra root normal
   zebra root normal
   zebra g normal
   zebra g1 expedite,normal
Now set the QOS expedite as the only QOS for the account G and display the result. Using the operator = that expedite is the only usable QOS by account G
->sacctmgr modify account name=G set qos=expedite
>sacctmgr show assoc format=cluster,account,user,qos
   Cluster Account QOS
  --------- -------- -----
  zebra root normal
  zebra root normal
  zebra g expedite
  zebra g1 expedite,normal
If a new account is added under the account G it will inherit the QOS expedite and it will not have access to QOS normal.
->sacctmgr add account banana parent=G
->sacctmgr show assoc format=cluster,account,qos
   Cluster Account QOS
  --------- -------- -----
  zebra root normal
  zebra root normal
  zebra g expedite
  zebra banana expedite
  zebra g1 expedite,normal

COPYING
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Lawrence Livermore National Security. Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).
Copyright (C) 2010-2013 SchedMD LLC.

This file is part of SLURM, a resource management program. For details, see <http://slurm.schedmd.com/>.

SLURM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

SLURM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

SEE ALSO
slurm.conf(5), slurmdbd(8)