Ticket 10749

Hi Alan,

You're right that there isn't currently a way to have the partition information included in a user report with sreport.  It should be possible to do this, but would require sponsorship for the development of this additional feature.  If you're interested in sponsoring this work let me know and we can look into it further. 

As an alternative, you may be able to get the information you need by using WCKeys to tag different types of jobs.  You can see that there are various places where you can use the WCKey in sreport, but the one that would probably be most useful to you would be the Cluster UserUtilizationByWckey report.  

The way I would recommend adding a WCKey to each of the jobs would be to create WCKeys that correspond to the different partitions you use and then have a submit filter and adds the appropriate WCKey to each job based on the requested partition.  You can read more about WCKeys here:
https://slurm.schedmd.com/wckey.html

Let me know if you have any questions about this.

Thanks,
Ben

Hi Alan,

Do you have any additional questions about using WCKeys to get the information you want from sreport?

Thanks,
Ben

Ideally, we would be able to query the information directly from the database by partition. It seems odd to me that this information is not considered a basic part of the report. Adding WCKeys just to get it does not seem to me to be an optimal solution.

If you're looking for a way to get this information outside of sreport then you should be able to do this with sacct.  There is information recorded about jobs that is stored in the database that you can then query with sacct.  The sacct command allows you to set various constraints on the start and end time, along with various attributes of the jobs like the partition, account, user, node(s), etc.  It will return a list with information about the jobs that have the specified attributes.  There are also quite a few attributes you can choose to display about the jobs that are returned.  For what you are describing I would recommend something like this:

sacct --start=2021-02-01 --end=2021-02-28 --user=user1 -o "jobid,user,partition,allocnodes,alloccpus,ntasks"

I just added a few example fields for the output specifier, you can obviously customize this to display what you are interested in.  For a comprehensive list of the options available and fields available to print you can look at the man page for sacct or the same information on our website:
https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html

This doesn't put the information together nicely for you, but should allow you to get the information you want to report on.  Let me know if this seems like a better solution for you or still isn't quite what you're looking for.

Thanks,
Ben

Hi Alan,

I wanted to see if the suggestion in my last comment sounds like it will work.  Let me know if you have any additional questions about this or if this ticket is ok to close.

Thanks,
Ben

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Hi Alan,

I haven't heard any follow up questions and I believe the information I sent should have helped.  I'll close this ticket, but feel free to let me know if something else does come up.

Thanks,
Ben