On 9/28/23 17:58, Groner, Rob wrote:
There's 14 steps to upgrading slurm listed on their website, including
shutting down and backing up the database. So far we've only updated
slurm during a downtime, and it's been a major version change, so we've
taken all the steps indicated.
We now want to upgrade from 23.02.4 to 23.02.5.
Our slurm builds end up in version named directories, and we tell
production which one to use via symlink. Changing the symlink will
automatically change it on our slurm controller node and all slurmd nodes.
Is there an expedited, simple, slimmed down upgrade path to follow if
we're looking at just a . level upgrade?
Upgrading minor releases usually work without any problems. We use RPMs
in stead of the symlink method, so I can't speak for symlinks. I
recommend you to read the latest SLUG'23 presentations and Jason Booth's
slides https://slurm.schedmd.com/SLUG23/Field-Notes-7.pdf page 26+.
For those using the RPM method, I have collected some notes in my Wiki
page
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/Slurm_installation/#upgrading-slurm
/Ole
