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.

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.