If you are upgrading to debian 8, and you are using the debian packaged version of slurm then your slurm will be upgraded when you upgrade to debian 8. A dpkg -l slurm-llnl will tell you if you have the debian slurm package installed and which slurmctld or more reliably lsof -p <slurmctld process id> will tell you if you're using /usr/sbin/slurmctld i.e. the system installed version or some other path. I'd suggest doing a backup of your mysql database if you have accounting i.e. slurmdbd turned on and restore it onto a spare system/vm first and test the debian 7->8 upgrade there first.
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Elisabetta Falivene <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been asked to upgrade our slurm installation. I have a slurm 2.3.4 on a > Debian 7.0 wheezy cluster (1 master + 8 nodes). I've not installed it so I'm > a bit confused about how to do this and how to proceed without destroying > anything. > > I was thinking to upgrade at least to Jessie (Debian 8) but what about > Slurm? I've read carefully the upgrading section > (https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html) of the doc, reading that > the upgrade must be done incrementally and not jumping from 2.3.4 to 17, for > example. > > Stil is not clear to me precisely how to do this. How would you proceed if > asked to upgrade a cluster you just don't know nothing about? What would you > check? What version of o.s. and slurm would you choose? What would you > backup? And how would you proceed? > > Any info is gold! Thank you
