Ok, I think what I want is to set the state of the partitions to down: http://slurm.schedmd.com/scontrol.html#OPT_SPECIFICATIONS-FOR-CREATE,-UPDATE,-AND-DELETE-COMMANDS,-PARTITIONS
ie, - no newly queued jobs will be started on that partition - slurm will continue to accept jobs for that partition - jobs running on that partition will continue to do so cheers L. ------ The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." - Grace Hopper On 12 October 2016 at 10:35, Lachlan Musicman <data...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hola, > > For reasons, our IT team needs some downtime on our authentication server > (FreeIPA/sssd). > > We would like to minimize the disruption, but also not lose any work. > > The current plan is for the nodes to be set to DRAIN on Friday afternoon > and on Monday morning we will suspend any running jobs, make the changes, > then resume nodes then jobs when complete. > > If we set all nodes to drain, will the partitions still accept jobs on the > queue, but just line them up waiting for the resources to come back online, > or does setting all resources to drain prevent people from putting jobs in > a queue? > > Is MAINT what I'm after? > > Cheers > L. > > ------ > The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this > way." > > - Grace Hopper >
