flux-resource(1)

SYNOPSIS

flux resource list [-n] [-o FORMAT] [-s STATES] [-i TARGETS]
flux resource info [-s STATES] [-i TARGETS]
flux resource R [-s STATES] [-i TARGETS]
flux resource status [-n] [-o FORMAT] [-s STATES] [-i TARGETS]
flux resource drain [-n] [-o FORMAT] [-i TARGETS]
flux resource drain [-f] [-u] [targets] [reason]
flux resource undrain targets
flux resource reload [-f] [--xml] path

DESCRIPTION

flux resource lists and manipulates Flux resources. The resource inventory is maintained and monitored by the resource service. The scheduler acquires a subset of resources from the resource service to allocate to jobs, and relies on the resource service to inform it of status changes that affect the usability of resources by jobs as described in RFC 27.

The flux resource list subcommand queries the scheduler for its view of resources, including allocated/free status.

The other flux resource subcommands operate on the resource service and are primarily of interest to system administrators of a Flux system instance. For example, they can show whether or not a node is booted, and may be used to administratively drain and undrain nodes.

A few notes on drained nodes:

  • While a node is drained, the scheduler will not allocate it to jobs.

  • The act of draining a node does not affect running jobs.

  • When an instance is restarted, drained nodes remain drained.

  • The scheduler may determine that a job request is feasible if the total resource set, including drained nodes, would allow it to run.

  • In flux resource status and flux resource drain, the drain state of a node will be presented as "drained" if the node has no job allocations, and "draining" if there are still jobs running on the node.

  • If a node is drained and offline, then "drained*" will be displayed.

Some further background on resource service operation may be found in the RESOURCE INVENTORY section below.

COMMANDS

list

Show the scheduler view of resources.

In the scheduler view, excluded resources are always omitted, and unavailable resources are shown in the "down" state regardless of the reason (drained, offline, etc). Valid states in the scheduler view are:

up

Available for use.

down

Unavailable for use.

allocated

Allocated to jobs.

free

Not allocated to jobs.

all

Wildcard matching all resources.

-s, --states=STATE,...

Restrict displayed resource states to a comma separated list of the states listed above.

If unspecified, free,allocated,down is used.

-i, --include=TARGETS

Filter results to only include resources matching TARGETS, which may be specified either as an idset of broker ranks or list of hosts in hostlist form. It is not an error to specify ranks or hosts which do not exist.

-o, --format=FORMAT

Customize the output format (See the OUTPUT FORMAT section below).

-n, --no-header

Suppress header from output,

info

Show a brief, single line summary of scheduler view of resources, for example:

8 Nodes, 32 Cores, 0 GPUs
-s, --states=STATE,...

Limit the output to specified resource states as described above for the list command.

If unspecified, all is used.

-i, --include=TARGETS

Filter results to only include resources matching TARGETS, which may be specified either as an idset of broker ranks or list of hosts in hostlist form. It is not an error to specify ranks or hosts which do not exist.

R

Emit an RFC 20 Resource Set based on the scheduler view of resources.

-s, --states=STATE,...

Limit the output to specified resource states as described above for the list command.

If unspecified, all is used.

-i, --include=TARGETS

Filter results to only include resources matching TARGETS, which may be specified either as an idset of broker ranks or list of hosts in hostlist form. It is not an error to specify ranks or hosts which do not exist.

status

Show system view of resources. Valid states in the system view are:

avail

available for scheduling when up

exclude

excluded by configuration

draining

drained but still allocated

drained

drained and unallocated

drain

shorthand for drained,draining

offline

node has not joined the Flux instance (e.g. turned off or has not started the flux broker).

online

node has joined the Flux instance

flux resource status displays a line of output for each set of resources that share a state and online/offline state.

Note

flux resource status queries both the resource service and the scheduler to identify resources that are available, excluded by configuration, or administratively drained or draining.

-s, --states=STATE,...

Restrict the set of resource states a comma-separated list.

If unspecified, avail,exclude,draining,drained is used.

-i, --include=TARGETS

Filter the results to only include resources matching TARGETS, which may be specified either as an idset of broker ranks or list of hosts in hostlist form. It is not an error to specify ranks or hosts which do not exist.

-o, --format=FORMAT

Customize output formatting. See the OUTPUT FORMAT section below for details.

-n,--no-header

Suppress header from output,

--skip-empty

Force suppression of empty lines.

Normally, flux resource status skips lines with no resources, unless the -s, --states option is used.

drain

If specified without targets, list the drained nodes. In this mode, the following options are available:

-o, --format=FORMAT

Customize output formatting. See the OUTPUT FORMAT section below for details.

-n,--no-header

Suppress header from output,

-i, --include=TARGETS

Filter the results to only include resources matching TARGETS, which may be specified either as an idset of broker ranks or list of hosts in hostlist form. It is not an error to specify ranks or hosts which do not exist.

If specified with targets (IDSET or HOSTLIST), drain the specified nodes. Any remaining free arguments are recorded as a reason for the drain event. By default, flux resource drain fails if any of the targets are already drained.

Resources cannot be both excluded and drained, so flux resource drain will also fail if any targets are currently excluded by configuration. There is no option to force an excluded node into the drain state.

This command, when run with arguments, is restricted to the Flux instance owner.

-f, --force

If any of targets are already drained, do not fail. Overwrite the original drain reason. When --force is specified twice, the original drain timestamp is also overwritten.

-u, --update

If any of targets are already drained, do not fail and do not overwrite the existing drain reason or timestamp.

undrain

Undrain the nodes specified by the targets argument (IDSET or HOSTLIST).

This command is restricted to the Flux instance owner.

reload

Reload the resource inventory from path. By default, path refers to a file in RFC 20 format.

This command is primarily used in test.

-x, --xml

Interpret path as a directory of hwloc <rank>.xml files.

-f, --force

Do not fail if resource contain invalid ranks.

OUTPUT FORMAT

The --format option can be used to specify an output format using Python's string format syntax or a defined format by name. For a list of built-in and configured formats use -o help. An alternate default format can be set via the FLUX_RESOURCE_STATUS_FORMAT_DEFAULT, FLUX_RESOURCE_DRAIN_FORMAT_DEFAULT, and FLUX_RESOURCE_LIST_FORMAT_DEFAULT environment variables (for flux resource status, flux resource drain, and flux resource list respectively). A configuration snippet for an existing named format may be generated with --format=get-config=NAME. See flux-jobs(1) OUTPUT FORMAT section for a detailed description of this syntax.

Resources are combined into a single line of output when possible depending on the supplied output format. Resource counts are not included in the determination of uniqueness. Therefore, certain output formats will alter the number of lines of output. For example:

$ flux resource list -no {nnodes}

Would simply output a single of output containing the total number of nodes. The actual state of the nodes would not matter in the output.

The following field names can be specified for the status and drain subcommands:

state

State of node(s): "avail", "exclude", "drain", "draining", "drained". If the set of resources is offline, an asterisk suffix is appended to the state, e.g. "avail*".

statex

Like state, but exclude the asterisk for offline resources.

status

Current online/offline status of nodes(s): "online", "offline"

up

Displays a if the node is online, or if offline. An ascii y or n may be used instead with up.ascii.

nnodes

number of nodes

ranks

ranks of nodes

nodelist

node names

timestamp

If node(s) in drain/draining/drained state, timestamp of node(s) set to drain.

reason

If node(s) in drain/draining/drained state, reason node(s) set to drain.

The following field names can be specified for the list subcommand:

state

State of node(s): "up", "down", "allocated", "free", "all"

queue

queue(s) associated with resources.

properties

Properties associated with resources.

propertiesx

Properties associated with resources, but with queue names removed.

nnodes

number of nodes

ncores

number of cores

ngpus

number of gpus

ranks

ranks of nodes

nodelist

node names

rlist

Short form string of all resources.

CONFIGURATION

Similar to flux-jobs(1), the flux resource command supports loading a set of config files for customizing utility output formats. Currently this can be used to register named format strings for the status, list, and drain subcommands.

Configuration for each flux resource subcommand is defined in a separate table, so to add a new format myformat for flux resource list, the following config file could be used:

# $HOME/.config/flux/flux-resource.toml
[list.formats.myformat]
description = "My flux resource list format"
format = "{state} {nodelist}"

See flux-jobs(1) CONFIGURATION section for more information about the order of precedence for loading these config files.

RESOURCE INVENTORY

The Flux instance's inventory of resources is managed by the resource service, which determines the set of available resources through one of three mechanisms:

configuration

Resources are read from a config file in RFC 20 (R version 1) format. This mechanism is typically used in a system instance of Flux.

enclosing instance

Resources are assigned by the enclosing Flux instance. The assigned resources are read from the job's R key in the enclosing instance KVS.

dynamic discovery

Resources are aggregated from the set of resources reported by hwloc on each broker.

Once the inventory has been determined, it is stored the KVS resource.R key, in RFC 20 (R version 1) format.

Events that affect the availability of resources are posted to the KVS resource.eventlog. Such events include:

resource-define

The resource inventory is defined with an initial set of drained, online, and excluded nodes.

drain

One or more nodes are administratively removed from scheduling.

undrain

One or more nodes are no longer drained.

offline

One or more nodes are removed from scheduling due to unavailability, e.g. node was shutdown or crashed.

online

One or more nodes are no longer offline.

RESOURCES

Flux: http://flux-framework.org

Flux RFC: https://flux-framework.readthedocs.io/projects/flux-rfc

FLUX RFC