Hola, Because I built the cluster on the fly, I named it after my partner. The boss didn't like this, so we wanted to change the name. (to rosalind for Rosalind Franklin).
I took a dump of sacctmgr: sacctmgr dump fiona File=/root/fiona_cluster.cfg and took a look inside. I didn't read the entire man page because I'm impatient and I saw the "dump/load" combo and figured it would do what it said on the tin. I edited the dump file, replacing the cluster name with the new one, renamed the file and reloaded the cfg file: sacctmgr load rosalind_cluster.cfg Didn't work. First error was that QOS didn't exist? Cluster - 'rosalind':Fairshare=1:QOS='normal' Second error was that the partitions didn't exist? Obviously they did - the only thing that had changed was the cluster name (in the conf, slurmctl and slurmd had restarted fine across all nodes). In particular it was the format of the user lines: User - 'test_user':Partition='bcl2fastq':DefaultAccount='dev':Fairshare=1 User - 'test_user':Partition='debug':DefaultAccount='dev':Fairshare=1 The Partition section. I can only surmise that: - I did something wrong* - there's an error in the dump/load workflow I have added all users and associations back by hand - tedious but at least I could complete it without error. * note that I recognise I did do something wrong by not reading the man file thoroughly end to end and missing the line "Cluster= - specify a different name for the cluster than that which is in the file." Having said that, I feel that I must be missing something else/have done something else wrong. AFAICT those users are showing "Associations" rather than users (hence the "Partition" part). I've posted about this here before. I was using the syntax sacctmgr add user manfred DefaultAccount=dev Fairshare=x but then couldn't work out how to mod the user to define a Partition. Of course the reason this didn't work is because users don't have Partitions - Associations have Users, Partitions, Accounts and Clusters. But to add those I was using this (confusing) syntax: sacctmgr add user manfred DefaultAccount=dev Fairshare=x Partition=dev Anyway, despite my own failings (numerous), I feel that either dump/load isn't working as one would expect it to work; or that the docs aren't clear enough with regard to adding a user and adding an association. Cheers L. ------ The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." - Grace Hopper
