Thanks all, turns out those nodes do need to be defined in the config using NodeName, but then as Ahmet M says just don't include them in a partition.
Steve http://stackhpc.com/ Please note I work Tuesday to Friday. On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 06:06, mercan <ahmet.mer...@uhem.itu.edu.tr> wrote: > Hi; > > I don't know the best way, but if you did not put a loginnode's name > into a partition, the sinfo will not show this node and any job will not > run on this node, just because of a node have a running slurmd. > > Ahmet M. > > > 6.01.2021 19:45 tarihinde Steve Brasier yazdı: > > Hi all, > > > > For a cluster in configless mode there appear to be two ways of having > > a login-only node (i.e. not running slurmctld) - either 1) setting DNS > > records or 2) "... consider running slurmd on the machine so it can > > manage the configuration files, but not allowing it to run jobs." [A] > > > > What's the best way of achieving option 2)? Ideally I don't want the > > login node(s) which are running slurmd even showing up in e.g sinfo. > > > > [A]: https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html > > <https://slurm.schedmd.com/configless_slurm.html> > > > > > > many thanks for any suggestions > > > > http://stackhpc.com/ <http://stackhpc.com/> > > Please note I work Tuesday to Friday. >
