slurmctld(8)

1slurmctld(8)                     Slurm Daemon                     slurmctld(8)
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NAME

6       slurmctld - The central management daemon of Slurm.
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SYNOPSIS

9       slurmctld [OPTIONS...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       slurmctld  is  the  central management daemon of Slurm. It monitors all
13       other Slurm daemons and resources, accepts work (jobs),  and  allocates
14       resources to those jobs. Given the critical functionality of slurmctld,
15       there may be a backup server to assume these  functions  in  the  event
16       that the primary server fails.
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18       OPTIONS
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21       -c     Clear  all  previous  slurmctld  state from its last checkpoint.
22              With this option, all jobs, including both running  and  queued,
23              and all node states, will be deleted.  Without this option, pre‐
24              viously running jobs will be preserved along with node State  of
25              DOWN, DRAINED and DRAINING nodes and the associated Reason field
26              for those nodes.  NOTE: It is rare you would ever  want  to  use
27              this in production as all jobs will be killed.
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30       -D     Run slurmctld in the foreground with logging copied to stdout.
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32       -f <file>
33              Read configuration from the specified file. See NOTES below.
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35       -h     Help; print a brief summary of command options.
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37       -i     Ignore errors found while reading in state files on startup.
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39       -L <file>
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44              Set  the daemon's nice value to the specified value, typically a
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48       -r     Recover partial  state  from  last  checkpoint:  jobs  and  node
49              DOWN/DRAIN  state  and  reason  information state.  No partition
50              state is recovered.  This is the default action.
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53       -R     Recover full state from last checkpoint: jobs, node, and  parti‐
54              tion  state.   Without this option, previously running jobs will
55              be preserved along with node State of DOWN, DRAINED and DRAINING
56              nodes  and the associated Reason field for those nodes. No other
57              node or partition state will be preserved.
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60       -v     Verbose operation. Multiple -v's increase verbosity.
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62       -V     Print version information and exit.
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

66       The following environment variables can be used  to  override  settings
67       compiled into slurmctld.
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69       SLURM_CONF          The  location of the Slurm configuration file. This
70                           is overridden by explicitly naming a  configuration
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CORE FILE LOCATION

75       If  slurmctld  is started with the -D option then the core file will be
76       written to the current working directory.  Otherwise  if  SlurmctldLog‐
77       File  is  a fully qualified path name (starting with a slash), the core
78       file will be written to the same directory as the  log  file,  provided
79       SlurmUser  has  write  permission on the directory.  Otherwise the core
80       file will be written to the StateSaveLocation, or "/var/tmp/" as a last
81       resort.  If  none  of  the  above directories have write permission for
82       SlurmUser, no core file will be produced.  The command "scontrol abort"
83       can be used to abort the slurmctld daemon and generate a core file.
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NOTES

87       It  may  be useful to experiment with different slurmctld specific con‐
88       figuration parameters using a distinct configuration file  (e.g.  time‐
89       outs).   However,  this  special configuration file will not be used by
90       the slurmd daemon or the Slurm programs, unless you  specifically  tell
91       each of them to use it. If you desire changing communication ports, the
92       location of the temporary file system,  or  other  parameters  used  by
93       other   Slurm   components,   change  the  common  configuration  file,
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COPYING

98       Copyright (C) 2002-2007 The Regents of the  University  of  California.
99       Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Lawrence Livermore National Security.  Produced
100       at   Lawrence   Livermore   National   Laboratory   (cf,   DISCLAIMER).
101       CODE-OCEC-09-009. All rights reserved.
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103       This  file  is  part  of  Slurm,  a  resource  management program.  For
104       details, see <https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.
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106       Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it  under
107       the  terms  of  the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
108       Software Foundation; either version 2  of  the  License,  or  (at  your
109       option) any later version.
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111       Slurm  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
112       ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of  MERCHANTABILITY  or
113       FITNESS  FOR  A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
114       for more details.
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