Some Useful LSF Commands
-------------------------
These are some of the most useful LSF commands which I have collected from internet. All the commands come with
help/man page so you can find about their detail use in those pages. Some of the commands may not work for
your Linux cluster. The commands in group A are mostly for monitoring the health of your system and in Group B are
for monitoring and managing your job.
Jayanti Prasad
February 22, 2014
--------------------------------
Group A:
(1) lsid : Display the LSF release version, the name of the local load sharing cluster, and the name of its master LIM host.
(2) lsclusters : Display general configuration information about LSF clusters.
(3) lsinfo : Display information about the LSF configuration, including available resources, host types and host models.
(4) lshosts : Display information about LSF host configuration, including host type, host model, CPU normalization factor,
number of CPUs, maximum memory, and available resources.
(5) lsplace : Query LIM daemon for a placement decision. This command is normally used in an argument to select hosts for other commands.
(6) lsrtasks : Display or update the user's remote or local task lists. These task lists are maintained by LSF on a per user basis
to store the resource requirements of tasks. Default: display the task list in multi-column format.
(7) lsrun : Submit a task to the LSF system for execution, possibly on a remote host.
(8) lsgrun : Execute a task on the specified group of hosts.
(9) lsload : Display load information on hosts, in order of increasing load.
(10)lsmon : Full screen LSF monitoring utility displaying dynamic load information of hosts.
lsmon supports all the lsload options, plus the additional -i and -L options. It also has run-time options.
Group (B)
(1) bsub : Submit a batch job to the LSF system
(2) bkill : Kill a running job
(3) bjobs : See the status of jobs in the LSF queue
(4) bpeek : Access the output and error files of a job
(5) bhist : History of one or more LSF jobs
(6) bqueues: Information about LSF batch queues
(7) bhosts : Display information about the server hosts in the LSF Batch system.
(8) bhpart : Display information about host partitions in the LSF Batch system.
(9) bparams: Display information about the configurable LSF Batch system parameters. By default only display the most 'interesting' parameters.
(10 busers : Display information about LSF Batch users and user groups.
(11)bugroup: Display LSF Batch user or host group membership. If a group member is a group itself (subgroup), then a slash '/' is appended to its name.
(12)bmodify: Modify the options of a previously submitted job. bmodify uses a subset of the bsub options. To reset an option
to its default value, use the option string followed by 'n'.
(13)bstop : Suspend one or more unfinished batch jobs.
(14)bresume: Resume one or more unfinished batch jobs.
(15)bchkpnt: Checkpoint one or more unfinished (running or suspended) jobs. The job must have been submitted with bsub -k.
(16)brestart: Submit a job to be restarted from the checkpoint files in the specified directory. brestart uses a subset of the bsub options.
(17)bmig : Migrate one or more unfinished (running or suspended) jobs to another host. The job must have been submitted with -r or -k options to bsub.
(18)btop and bbot: Move a pending job to the top (beginning) or bottom (end) of its queue. This only effects the user's own jobs.
(19)bswitch: Switch one or more unfinished (running or suspended) jobs from one queue to another.
(20)bcal: Display information about the calendars in the LSF JobScheduler system.
(21)bdel: Delete one or more unfinished batch jobs. This command must be used to remove a calendar-driven job from the LSF
JobScheduler system. bkill kills the current run of the job, while bdel removes the job completely.
Running bdel on a job that is not calendar-driven is equivalent to bkill.