Ticket 3435

Summary:	slurm.conf Syntax Checker
Product:	Slurm	Reporter:	Paul Edmon <pedmon>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Unassigned Developer <dev-unassigned>
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Severity:	5 - Enhancement
Priority:	---	CC:	aeng, bas.vandervlies, ben.roberts, gmdexter, hltcoe-help, joe.teumer, justin.lecher, kilian, Michael.Hammond, novosirj, philip, pkenyon, racsadmin, RC_LICENSES, sergey_meirovich, sts, tmerritt, twurgl, will
Version:	19.05.3
Hardware:	Linux
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12664 https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12665
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Description Paul Edmon 2017-01-27 14:26:06 MST

We use puppet to manage our slurm deployment here and we do some syntax checking to validate our slurm.conf before we deploy it.  However right now it is rather kludgy, namely we do:

SLURM_CONF="test.conf" scontrol show config

However, that requires the scontrol to be able to talk to the slurm master, which isn't really great for testing a conf, especially if your master is down due to a conf syntax error.

Could we get an independent slurm.conf (and frankly slurmdbd.conf) syntax checker than can be run independent of a working master that just looks to see if the conf is reasonable?  This is especially important for node names to make sure that those names are resolvable.

This would be an immense help for the automatic testing and validating of slurm in our environment.  Thanks.

Comment 1 hltcoe-help 2020-02-10 09:25:06 MST

We would also very much appreciate this feature.

Comment 2 Justin Lecher 2020-02-10 09:25:17 MST

On annual leave until the 19th February 2020.


Please call me on my mobile in urgent cases.

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Comment 3 Phil Kauffman 2020-09-30 13:34:09 MDT

Here to +1 this feature request for the same reason as OP.

Comment 4 Todd Merritt 2021-07-28 09:41:31 MDT

+1 please add this feature.

Comment 5 Tom Wurgler 2021-10-13 09:20:47 MDT

+ 1 here as well

Comment 6 Joe 2021-11-12 15:08:55 MST

+1 would be very useful

Comment 7 Justin Lecher 2021-11-12 15:09:09 MST

I am on leave Thursday/Friday. Will catch up with emails on Monday.

In urgent cases, please call my mobile
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Comment 8 Gordon Dexter 2022-06-10 12:57:28 MDT

Same as the original reporter, we are deploying slurm.conf via puppet.  The puppet config can be syntax checked and validated by CI/CD before deployment, but slurm.conf and associated files (gres.conf, cgroup.conf, and any includes) cannot.  This is especially worse since a single syntax error in any of those files will effectively crash the entire cluster.  The SLURM_CONF= method doesn't work for us either, because the verification happens in a docker container, isolated from the actual slurm instance.

There are almost a dozen people on this ticket, plus multiple duplicate tickets.  This is clearly an important feature, and its absence in Slurm is causing us substantial heartburn.

Comment 9 Justin Lecher 2022-06-10 13:39:58 MDT

I will be returning to the office on the 13th May 2022. I will respond to your message when I return.
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Comment 10 Mark Allen 2022-08-24 11:41:48 MDT

I'll bump this. We'd love to be able to syntax check our config files prior to them getting deployed.

Comment 11 UAB Research Computing 2022-12-08 15:16:28 MST

Ditto from UAB, ability to validate Slurm/slurmdbd/gres/cgroup.conf via CI/CD would be outstanding.

Comment 12 Justin Lecher 2022-12-08 15:48:45 MST

I am workshops and only sporadically available. Please apologise any delay in email response.

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Comment 13 Ryan Novosielski 2023-09-15 15:16:17 MDT

Discovered this feature request looking to find out the syntax for using it (I apparently incorrectly remembered that there was such a feature). Want to give it a +1. We also /do/ have a support contract if that helps.