You have to restart pbs things: service pbs_server restart, service pbs_mom restart, service maui restart on CE. Then check command "pbsnodes -l" and restart pbs_mom on those nodes reported by it. Mario David wrote: >Hi Dan >thanks, >although I think that we had tried something similar with properties in >the nodes, but have observed that nevertheless there were jobs of a given >group going to a node without its property > >I will try again > >cheers > >Mario > >Quoting Dan Schrager <[log in to unmask]>: > > > >>Like that: >> >>qmgr -c "s q dteam resources_default.neednodes=dteam" >>qmgr -c "s q atlas resources_default.neednodes=atlas" >>qmgr -c "s q alice resources_default.neednodes=alice" >>... >> >>and, for the nodes: >> >>qmgr -c "s n <a_reserved_node_name> properties+=dteam" >> >>for each other node: >>qmgr -c "s n <a_node_name> properties+=atlas" >>qmgr -c "s n <same_node_name> properties+=alice" >>.... >>but not dteam !! >> >>All nodes get all properties but dteam and only the reserved ones get >>property dteam. >>I am using the same approach to avoid atlas and lhcb jobs coming to >>another WN of mine with less memory, etc. >>The choice of strings is up to you, the existing queue names seemed a >>natural fit to me. >> >> >> >>Mario David wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi Dan >>>how do you set a WN only to dteam with pbs/maui? >>> >>>we are having problems because all nodes are full of atlas and cms jobs >>>and dteam sft doesn't enter. Despite fairshares in maui.conf >>>in the past I had tried to set specific nodes to specific groups >>>in the qmgr but was not successfull. >>> >>>cheers >>> >>>Mario >>> >>>Quoting Dan Schrager <[log in to unmask]>: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Dear Christine, >>>> >>>>I have deleted your simulation(?) job run as user dteam at my site >>>>because it was blocking the unique WN reserved for short dteam (SFT >>>>kind) jobs. >>>>Use in the future an atlas certificate for such purposes. >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>>Dan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >