[slurm-users] Enable SLURM Accounting

[Buckley, Ronan]

Hi All,

 

I need to enable SLURM accounting so that I can use commands like sacct, sstat,sreport etc. It looks like SLURM accounting was not enabled by default. From reading the online documentation, all I have to do is to un-commented the following lines in /etc/slurm/slurm.conf:

 

#JobAcctGatherFrequency=30

# AccountingStorageLoc=slurm_acct_db

# AccountingStoragePass=SLURMDBD_USERPASS

 

Then run the command 'scontrol reconfigure' the SLURM configuration.

Is that all I have to do?

 

Ronan

[Andy Riebs]

Let me recommend the very helpful documentation on Slurm accounting at <https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html>.

Andy

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[Wiegand, Paul]

No, there's more. In terms of the slurm.conf ... you will need to set the storage host so slurm knows where to go look for slurmdbd. If you are enforcing any limits, you will need to set those. I also set the job gather type.

AccountingStorageEnforce
AccountingStorageHost
JobAcctGatherType


You will have also have to make sure mysql is installed, slurmdbd is setup, and you have slurmdbd.conf file, as well. You will have to create the accounts and users using sacctmgr, and possibly QOSs, depending on what you'd like to do. It's not difficult, but there are a number of small steps.

There's a document online that walks you through the process.

Paul.

[Buckley, Ronan]

I forgot to add. I have the following already in place:

From slurm.conf:

# ACCOUNTING
JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/linux
#JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/cgroup
#JobAcctGatherFrequency=30
AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/slurmdbd
AccountingStorageUser=slurm
# AccountingStorageLoc=slurm_acct_db
# AccountingStoragePass=SLURMDBD_USERPASS

From slurmdbd.conf:

# Database info
StorageType=accounting_storage/mysql
StorageHost=127.0.0.1
#StoragePort=1234
StoragePass=*********************
StorageUser=slurm
StorageLoc=slurm_acct_db