I was trying to configure licenses in Slurm 2.4.2 and I there is a discrepancy with the documentation. The slurm.conf man page says to use an asterisk '*' between the license name and the count while the web page for slurm.conf says to use a colon ':'. The slurmd and slurmctld will apparently accept either but will generate errors when you try to use the license if you defined it with a ':'. I believe it just creates a single license with named 'cnode:1024' instead of 1024 licenses named 'cnode'.
This caused me some head scratching since I was using the web page docs. After I figured it out the hard way, I looked at the man page. -- Carl Schmidtmann Center for Integrated Research Computing University of Rochester
