Altair Control™ User Guide

2021.1.0

Home
Monitor and Manage an HPC Cluster
Monitor jobs and nodes to understand what your HPC system is doing and improve performance.
Monitor and Manage Jobs
Monitor and administer jobs to investigate problems, correct issues and improve performance.

What's New
Get Started
Tutorials
Establish Access Controls
Manage Clusters
Configure the Workload Manager
Monitor and Manage an HPC Cluster
Configure and Manage Allocations
Run a Simulation
Analyze HPC Resource Usage
Configure and Manage Cloud Bursting
Node Management
Real-time Dashboard
Log out of Control

2021.1.0

Altair Control™ User Guide

What's New
New features available with Altair Control™.
Get Started
Use Control to monitor and manage your HPC clusters.
Tutorials
Learn more about Control by watching a product video.
Establish Access Controls
Add users and assign them roles to grant and restrict access to the various features of Control.
Manage Clusters
Add, update, or delete HPC clusters.
Configure the Workload Manager
Configure WLM server and scheduler settings, queues, resources, defaults and limits.
Monitor and Manage an HPC Cluster
Monitor jobs and nodes to understand what your HPC system is doing and improve performance.
- View HPC Resource Usage Charts
  View charts that provide information about the core usage, job counts by state, and node usage at an HPC.
- Monitor and Manage Jobs
  Monitor and administer jobs to investigate problems, correct issues and improve performance.
  - View the Status of Jobs at a Glance
    View a summary of jobs submitted to an HPC cluster.
  - Drill Down to Jobs
    Drill down to obtain information about jobs submitted to an HPC cluster, to a specific queue, or by a specific user.
  - Monitor Jobs
    Sort, search and view the status of a cluster's jobs.
  - Manage Jobs
    Correct issues and improve performance by managing HPC jobs.
- Monitor and Manage Nodes
  Monitor and manage the health of your HPC cluster.
- Setting Alerts
  Set alerts to monitor the condition of an HPC cluster.
Configure and Manage Allocations
Configure allocation periods, clusters and service units and manage allocation budgets, accounts, and transactions.
Run a Simulation
Run a simulation to perform what-if analysis to determine the most productive way to scale and configure an HPC.
Analyze HPC Resource Usage
View HPC resource usage charts and simulation results.
Configure and Manage Cloud Bursting
Burst HPC cluster nodes in the cloud when the demand for computing capacity spikes.
Node Management
The Node Management page enables you to monitor, filter, add and configure nodes quickly through an easy to use interface.
Real-time Dashboard
The real-time dashboard in Control (currently in preview release stage), provides live data in a single page to view several aspects about the overall operation of a cluster.
Log out of Control
Logout once your work is complete.

Altair Control™ User Guide

2021.1.0

Home
Monitor and Manage an HPC Cluster
Monitor jobs and nodes to understand what your HPC system is doing and improve performance.
Monitor and Manage Jobs
Monitor and administer jobs to investigate problems, correct issues and improve performance.

What's New
Get Started
Tutorials
Establish Access Controls
Manage Clusters
Configure the Workload Manager
Monitor and Manage an HPC Cluster
Configure and Manage Allocations
Run a Simulation
Analyze HPC Resource Usage
Configure and Manage Cloud Bursting
Node Management
Real-time Dashboard
Log out of Control

Monitor and Manage Jobs

Monitor and administer jobs to investigate problems, correct issues and improve performance.

View the Status of Jobs at a Glance
View a summary of jobs submitted to an HPC cluster.
Drill Down to Jobs
Drill down to obtain information about jobs submitted to an HPC cluster, to a specific queue, or by a specific user.
Monitor Jobs
Sort, search and view the status of a cluster's jobs.
Manage Jobs
Correct issues and improve performance by managing HPC jobs.

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