IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1 Fix 600736 Readme

Abstract

P104327: This fix adds a resource group for the IBM Cloud Gen2 resource connector plugin and provides a performance enhancement for TCP LIM communication.

Description

Readme documentation for IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1 Fix 600736 including installation-related instructions, prerequisites and co-requisites.

This fix addresses the following issue:

Users can only create instances with the default resource group and there are performance issues with the LIM when returning a large number of VMs to the IBM Cloud.

Readme file for: IBM® Spectrum LSF
Product/Component Release: 10.1
Update Name: Fix 600736
PMR/APAR: P104327
Fix ID: lsf-10.1-build600736
Publication date:14 October 2021
Last modified date: 14 October 2021

Contents:

1. List of fixes

2. Download location

3. Product notifications

4. Products or components affected

5. System requirements

6. Installation and configuration

7. List of files

8. Copyright and trademark information

1. List of fixes

P104327

2. Download Location

Download Fix 600736 from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes

3. Product Notifications

To receive information about product solution and patch updates automatically, subscribe to product notifications on the My notifications page http://www.ibm.com/support/mynotifications/ on the IBM Support website (http://support.ibm.com). You can edit your subscription settings to choose the types of information you want to get notification about, for example, security bulletins, fixes, troubleshooting, and product enhancements or documentation changes.

4. Products or components affected

LSF/lim
LSF/mbatchd

LSF/lsload

LSF/mbschd
LSF/ebrokerd

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/conf/ibmcloudgen2_templates.json

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/conf/ibmcloudgen2_config.json

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/nextgen_rc_config.py

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/vpc_vm_dns.py

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/nextgen_get_status.py

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/nextgen_get_templates.py

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/nextgen_request_machines.py

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/nextgen_return_machines.py

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/nextgen_return_request.py

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/nextgen_utils.py

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/getAvailableTemplates.sh

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/requestReturnMachines.sh

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/requestMachines.sh

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/getReturnRequests.sh

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/getRequestStatus.sh

resource_connector/ibmcloudgen2/scripts/example_user_data.sh

5. System requirements

linux3.10-glibc2.10-x86_64
linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64

6. Installation and configuration

6.1       Before installation

Before applying this patch, you must ensure that IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1 has been installed.

(LSF_TOP=Full path to the top-level installation directory of LSF.)
1)    Log on to the LSF master host as root
2)    Set your environment:
        -      For csh or tcsh: % source LSF_TOP/conf/cshrc.lsf
        -      For sh, ksh, or bash: $ . LSF_TOP/conf/profile.lsf

6.2       Installation step

1)    Go to the patch install directory: cd $LSF_ENVDIR/../10.1/install/
2)    Copy the patch file to the install directory $LSF_ENVDIR/../10.1/install/
3)    Run patchinstall: ./patchinstall <patch>

6.3 After installation

1) Log on to the LSF management host as root or LSF admin.

2) Run lsadmin limrestart all
3) Run `badmin mbdrestart`.

6.4       Uninstallation

To roll back a patch:
1)    Log on to the LSF master host as root
2)    Run ./patchinstall -r <patch>

3) Run lsadmin limrestart all
4) Run `badmin mbdrestart`.

7. List of files

lim

lsload

mbatchd

mbschd

ebrokerd