Control Workspace
Overview of the Control workspace.
Control is an easy-to-use web application for monitoring and managing jobs and nodes of an HPC cluster. Advanced analytics to support data-driven planning and decision making is also available. Lastly, administrators can perform what-if analysis for determining the most productive way to scale an HPC system's resources by running simulations.
Main Navigation Ribbon
The main navigation ribbon allows navigation to the following tabs:
- Cloud
- Use cloud bursting to run jobs in the cloud and have the ability to dynamically add or remove nodes based on demand.
- Monitor
- Monitor and manage an HPC cluster's nodes, jobs and allocations. Monitor is divided into the following sub-menus:
- PBS Professional
- Monitor and manage an HPC cluster's nodes, jobs and alerts. This menu is
divided into the following sub-menus:
- Dashboard
- View the total core and node usage over a day, a week, or a month.
- Jobs
- Monitor and manage jobs submitted to your HPC clusters.
- Nodes
- Monitor and manage your HPC cluster's nodes.
- Alerts
- Set alerts to monitor when nodes go offline, CPU utilization drop below or rises above a specified percentage, and when a cluster becomes unavailable.
- Allocation Manager
- Configure allocation periods, clusters and service units and manage allocation
budgets, accounts, and transactions.
- Budgets
- View the balance left in an account.
- Accounts
- View a summary of credits and debits that have been made against an account.
- Transactions
- View transactions for all accounts or drill-down into transactions for a specific account.
- Configure
- Configure Workload Manager parameters and settings and allocations.
- PBS Professional
- Configure Workload Manager parameters and settings. his menu is divided into
the following sub-menus:
- Server Settings
- Modify the behavior of the Workload Manager Server.
- Queues
- Add, change, and delete execution and routing queues.
- Resources
- Add, change or delete custom resources.
- Defaults
- Add, edit or delete resource defaults.
- Limits
- Set WLM Server limits for maximum subjobs per job, maximum size of a job script, and maximum number of vnodes that can be provisioned.
- Security
- Grant PBS Manager and Operator privileges, specify whether users can query the status of jobs owned by another user, and specify how usernames are treated across all machines in a HPC cluster.
- Scheduling
- Modify the behavior of the Workload Manager Scheduler.
- Hooks
- Configure when the Python Interpreter should be restarted for Hooks.
- Access Management
- Add users and assign them roles to grant and restrict access to the various
features of Control.
- Roles
- Add, edit and delete roles.
- Users
- Add, edit and delete users.
- Allocation Manager
- Configure allocation periods, clusters and service units and manage allocation
budgets, accounts, and transactions.
- Periods
- Add, edit and delete periods and sub-periods.
- Clusters
- Add, activate or deactivate, and remove clusters.
- Service Units
- Add, activate or deactivate, and remove service units.
- Projects
- Add, edit and delete project accounts.
- Users
- Add, edit and delete user accounts.
- Analyze
- View HPC resource usage charts and simulation results
- Simulate
- Run simulations to perform what-if analysis.