The slurm commands use slurm APIs that are documented with man pages (most of them anyway) and available for your direct use in case you want to write your own tools. The header files are installed slurm/slurm.h and slurm/slurmdb.h
Quoting Andrew Carton <[email protected]>: > > Hi slurm people, > > Mostly, up until now I was relying on the interface and the model > defined in the public slurmdb and slurm header files that are > installed on a system, and one can just link against them to use > slurm. > > However, the sshare slurm command line tool, does something more > interesting than the other command line tools. It appears to use an > internal messaging / protocol that operates between the slurm > controller and the slurm daemon. > > I would like to get share information but there is no public C > interface defined that allows me to do this? Is this true? I am > using slurm 2.4.3. > > > I was wondering has that protocol been defined and would it be much > effort to write a small standalone piece of C code that could query > the current environment, lookup the slurm controller address and > then send and receive a message to it, and then terminate. Does > slurm communicate through sockets? I guess I would need to use munge > too? Is there a library for that? > > Thanks, > Andrew.
