User Commands                                         LSFBATCH(1)



NAME
     lsfbatch - LSF Batch system

DESCRIPTION
     LSF Batch is a load sharing batch system that uses LSF  Base
     and  LSLIB  to provide distributed batch job scheduling ser-
     vices.  It is supported by master and  slave  batch  daemons
     that  run  on hosts that act as servers of distributed batch
     jobs (see mbatchd(8)).  The Batch commands  (each  with  its
     own man page) are as follows:

     bsub(1)        submit a job for batched execution.

     bmod(1)        modify the parameters of a submitted job.

     bjobs(1)       display  the  status  and  other  information
                    about batch jobs.

     bqueues(1)     display  the  status  and  other  information
                    about batch job queues.

     bhosts(1)      display  the  status  and  other  information
                    about Batch server hosts.

     bhpart(1)      display information about Batch  host  parti-
                    tions.

     busers(1)      display information about Batch users.

     bugroup(1)     display  the  user  group  names  and   their
                    memberships as defined in the Batch system.

     bmgroup(1)     display  the  host  group  names  and   their
                    memberships  that  are  defined  in the Batch
                    system.

     bparams(1)     display the information about  the  configur-
                    able system parameters of Batch.

     bpeek(1)       display the stdout and stderr output produced
                    so far by a batch job that is being executed.

     bhist(1)       display the processing history of batch jobs.

     bkill(1)       send a UNIX signal to batch jobs.

     bstop(1)       suspend batch jobs.

     bresume(1)     resume suspended batch jobs.

     bchkpnt(1)     checkpoint batch jobs.



User Commands                                         LSFBATCH(1)



     brestart(1)    restart a job from checkpoint its files.

     bmig(1)        migrate a job.

     bswitch(1)     switch  pending  jobs  from  one   queue   to
                    another.

     btop(1)        move a pending job to the top (beginning)  of
                    its queue.

     bbot(1)        move a pending job to the bottom (end) of its
                    queue.

     bacct(1)       generate accounting information  about  batch
                    jobs.

     brun(1)        force a batch job to run.

     In addition to the native Batch command set described above,
     Batch  also  supports NQS job submission, job inspection and
     control, and job script files.  A Motif-based Graphical User
     Interface (GUI), xlsbatch, is also available, which supports
     all the operations listed above through an  easy-to-use  GUI
     interface (see xlsbatch(1)).

ENVIRONMENT
     Like other load sharing utilities, Batch needs access to the
     lsf.conf(5)  file to get information about the system confi-
     guration. By default, all commands  look  to  /etc  to  find
     lsf.conf(5),  unless  the environment variable LSF_ENVDIR is
     defined. In this case commands look to the LSF_ENVDIR direc-
     tory  to  find  lsf.conf(5).   It is required that all Batch
     commands use the same lsf.conf file as the LSF daemons.

SEE ALSO
     xlsbatch(1),   mbatchd(8),    lsf.conf(5),    lsb.queues(5),
     lsb.hosts(5), lsb.users(5), lsb.params(5)