I'm working on getting accounting set up on a new SLURM instance. The cluster is working, slurmdbd is running, database is configured, sacct spits out some job info, all appears to be working. Good, I built a thing and it seems to work. Now the hard part: what do I do with it?
* What exactly is an "account" in SLURM speak? We have well-defined groups already and I don't want my users to need to specify an account or anything of the such with their jobs. What do I need to do (if anything) to have accounting use purely users and groups and no manually-defined "accounts"?
* The whole JobComp explanation in the documentation isn't clear to me. What does accounting to slurmdbd /not/ provide that setting JobComp to log elsewhere would? Why can't slurmdbd be used for everything?
Here's some parts of the config, let me know if you want more: # grep AccountingStorage /etc/slurm/slurm.conf #AccountingStorageEnforce=0 AccountingStorageHost=slurm-p1n01.mgmt.kamiak.example.edu #AccountingStorageLoc= #AccountingStoragePass= #AccountingStoragePort= AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/slurmdbd #AccountingStorageUser= # grep JobCompType /etc/slurm/slurm.conf #JobCompType=jobcomp/slurmdbd -- Jeff White HPC Systems Engineer Information Technology Services - WSU
