Altair Control™ User Guide

2022.1.0

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 Nodes
Monitor and manage the health of your HPC cluster.
Manage Nodes
Bring nodes online or take nodes offline to indicate whether or not the nodes should accept and run cluster jobs.

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

2022.1.0

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.
- Monitor and Manage Nodes
  Monitor and manage the health of your HPC cluster.
  - View the Status of a Cluster at a Glance
    See the general status of HPC topics/nodes to understand what your HPC system is doing.
  - Drill Down to Nodes by Cluster or Queue
    Drill-down to get node information about the nodes in a cluster, nodes attached to queue, or a subset of nodes in either of these categories filtered by a condition.
  - Monitor Nodes
    Sort, search and view the status of a cluster's nodes.
  - Manage Nodes
    Bring nodes online or take nodes offline to indicate whether or not the nodes should accept and run cluster jobs.
    - Mark a Node Online
      Place a node back into the scheduling pool by marking it online.
    - Take a Node Offline
      Remove a node from the scheduling pool by taking it offline.
    - Add a Comment to a Node
      Add a comment to a node so that information pertaining to the node can be shared such as when a node is going to be taken offline.
- 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

2022.1.0

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 Nodes
Monitor and manage the health of your HPC cluster.
Manage Nodes
Bring nodes online or take nodes offline to indicate whether or not the nodes should accept and run cluster jobs.

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

Manage Nodes

Bring nodes online or take nodes offline to indicate whether or not the nodes should accept and run cluster jobs.

Mark a Node Online
Place a node back into the scheduling pool by marking it online.
Take a Node Offline
Remove a node from the scheduling pool by taking it offline.
Add a Comment to a Node
Add a comment to a node so that information pertaining to the node can be shared such as when a node is going to be taken offline.

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