Hi, I'm working on moving our clusters from torque/maui to slurm and we have decided to use QOS to replace the notion of queues that we had in PBS; however, we are unsure about the best way to reveal available QOS to users of the cluster. We are trying to be as user friendly as possible since we have many different skill levels amongst our user base, so we'd prefer to have a command that will show a user just the relevant information (things we've set) and allow them to view other options if they want to, but by default sacctmgr shows everything which is very unreadable. I was thinking about writing an alias or a wrapper script called showqos or sqos that would run sacctmgr with the format options we provide; however I was wondering if anyone has dealt with this already and can share how they deal with this issue at their site?
On a related note, I noticed that sacct has an environment variable called SACCT_FORMAT which sets the default formatting string which seems very useful; does anyone know if there's a good reason why there aren't more of these variables for sstat, squeue, sinfo, and the various sacct show/list queries? Is this just on the bottom of a to do list? If so I may be willing to contribute to get this functionality if it just needs doing. Thanks, Tim Gray?
