On 12/10/25 10:11 am, Yusuke Saiki via slurm-users wrote:
> Thank you, Chris. That helps a lot.
My pleasure!
> To be explicit about terms:
>
> ・Management node: runs slurmctld/slurmdbd
> ・Compute node: runs slurmd
That's correct, though there's no requirement to run slurmdbd on the
same node as the slurmctld.
> From your note (topology in common code referenced by forward_msg() and configless pushing topology.conf), I’ll keep topology.conf alongside slurm.conf and ensure /etc/slurm is readable across the cluster, including compute nodes.
> Does that align with your understanding?
Yup, that sounds right. Ideally you'll have the same config files
everywhere.
Just be careful with slurmdbd.conf as that should not be world-readable
as it will have the credentials for your MySQL/MariaDB/etc database in it.
All the best,
Chris