2020.1.0 Release
New Features and Enhancements
The following new features and enhancements were introduced this software release:
| Product(s) | Internal Number | Case Number | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| All | VOV-11377 | A new document viewer for the Accelerator product family is provided in the web UI. This document viewer provides a modernized interface with new client-side search capability. | |
| All | VOV-11059 | Field descriptions have been populated for all supported fields. These can be queried via the "fieldesc" metadata field, available for each object. | |
| Accelerator, Accelerator Plus | VOV-12279 | CS0121103 | The output of nc info and wx info now includes the project/queue name. |
| Accelerator | VOV-11378 | A modernized web UI dashboard page has been added to the
Accelerator web UI. To access the page, browse to the URL
generated by this command: nc cmd vovbrowser -url
/dashboard. ADMIN privileged users may access this
dashboard. |
|
| Accelerator | VOV-10124 | 24397 | The following commands nc run,
vovset resources, nc modify
-res, now support binary unit conversion for all
memory based resources as a convenience from Petabytes (PB),
Terabyte (TB), or Gigabyte (GB) to Megabytes (MB), which is
still used internally and reported by all commands. The input
conversion will accept either decimal or integer form and are
all case-insensitive, so for example both nc run -r
RAM/0.1Tb — sleep 0 and nc run -r SWAP/1GB
— sleep 0 are supported. The currently supported
parameter names for which this conversion is supported are RAM/,
RAM#, RAMFREE#, RAMFREE/, RAMTOTAL#, RAMFREE/, SWAP/, SWAP#,
SWAPFREE#, SWAPFREE/, SWAPTOTAL#, SWAPTOTAL/ and TMP# or TMP/.
By default the unit is MB (Megabytes), where 1MB is 1<<20
bytes. |
| Accelerator | VOV-9830 | 24092, 24093 | Added confirmation WebUI dialogs for MakeDefault and ClearDefault job class - Writing MakeDefault and ClearDefault job class events to server log |
| Accelerator | VOV-9778 | 23068, 23767, 23914, 24923 | Irrelevant alerts are no longer generated. Addressed some
implementation issues with
vtk_flexlm_exclude_tags. Note that calls
to vtk_flexlm_exclude_tags are cumulative and
override any tags added with
vtk_flexlm_monitor and
vtk_flexlm_monitor_all. The
-noooq parameter for
vtk_flexlm_monitor has no impact at
present, please use vovresSetFlags instead.
The -order parameter to
vtk_flexlm_monitor and
vtk_flexlm_monitor_all only orders any
specified tags, it no longer adds tags (use -tags to add tags).
The optional parameters vovResource,
vovMap to
vtk_flexlm_monitor are now handled
correctly. |
| Accelerator | VOV-8055 | 21777 | Added a new capability to limit the number of interactive jobs that can run concurrently, both at the global and user levels. This is accomplished by creating a limit resource and setting is as the interactive job limit in the vncrun.config.tcl configuration file. For example: set VOV_JOB_DESC(interactive,limit) Limit:interactive or for per-user a limit: set VOV_JOB_DESC(interactive,limit) Limit:interactive_@USER@ The resource must exist prior to adding these lines to the file. |
| Accelerator | VOV-9017 | 23067 | MAXCPUPROGRESS now provides the maximum sampled percentage of CPU time as an integer used by a job, including all its children, which can be greater than 100 if the job is utilizing multiple cores. |
| Accelerator | VOV-9130 | 23265 | Added the -sickslave parameter to the vovinvalidate command, to invalidate running/retracing jobs that are no longer attached to a slave. |
| Accelerator | VOV-7811 | 21342 | Added ability to provide a stop reason when stopping jobs via the web UI. |
| Accelerator | VOV-12458 | Implemented Dialpad menu for mobile screens. | |
| FlowTracer | VOV-10618 | Added the NODEGRAPH, JOBGRAPH, NODEGRAPHHIER and JOBGRAPHHIER fields for vovselect or REST to return node dependency information for Set objects. The information can be used to construct a FlowTracer flow graph of nodes. | |
| All | VOV-11323 | vovdoc CLI utility is retired | |
| All | VOV-11454 | vov_rest_v3.py is the new Python module used to make v3 REST API requests against vovserver. | |
| All | VOV-11251 | Accelerated processing of Crash Recovery file. | |
| All | VOV-10844 | Provide a REST API addition to allow job control. The following operations can be performed via the v3 REST API: 1. Dispatch 2. Forget 3. Preempt 4. Rerun 5. Resume 6. Suspend | |
| All | VOV-10964 | Job attributes can now be modified via the v3 REST API in ways that are also possible via the command line with nc modify. |
Resolved Issues
The following issues were resolved in this release.
| Product(s) | Internal Number | Case Number | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| All | VOV-5570 | Fixed behavior of the ROWCOUNT field used by vovselect and related commands; vovselect will print "0" instead of an empty string when there are no rows in the query, and will print a correct count instead of 0 for "vovselect rowcount from objects". | |
| All | VOV-12721 | Fixed an issue with the 2020.1.0 beta that caused a user to be logged out of a web session for one product when the user logged into a different product session in the same browser. | |
| All | VOV-9853 | 24114 | When determining if a shell is configured for a project, the environment variables VOV_PROJECT_NAME and VOV_HOST_NAME must be set. New checks were added to ensure the values of these variables may not be empty strings and may not be set to "unknown". |
| All | VOV-12027 | CS0120819 | Add the previously missing documentation for the vovlicensemgr command. |
| All | VOV-12583 | Fixed an issue where querying for "maxnumacores" was returning the total number of cores in the system instead of the maximum number of cores in a NUMA node. | |
| Accelerator | VOV-11515 | 25220 | Added a new server configuration parameter, tasker.uninterruptableSignalCascades, that controls whether taskers should process incoming job control requests when there is an existing signal cascade being processed. If TRUE, taskers will ignore incoming job control requests if an existing request is in-process and a message will be printed to the slave log indicating as such. Default is FALSE. |
| Accelerator | VOV-10850 | NUMA support has been updated to work correctly on systems configured with the number of sockets unequal to the number of NUMA nodes (Click here for an example). On such systems, the earlier implementation would report the number of NUMA nodes and associated memory incorrectly. The earlier implementation could also result in degraded memory performance if a socket has more than 1 NUMA node. | |
| Accelerator | VOV-7947 | 21578, 24177 | Fix a failure to remove an Accelerator job's pre-command and post-command script log files by the command nc clean. |
| Accelerator | VOV-8975 | 22946, 29901 | The output of nc getfield JOB cputime with a
lowercase cputime is changed to be the integer
accumulated CPU time for a job scaled in milliseconds. This is
now consistent with the output of nc getfield JOB
CPUTIME with an uppercase CPUTIME
field name. |
| Accelerator | VOV-5439 | 21073 | Execution information shows, "job has never run" instead of epoch dates for jobs that have not run yet. |
| Accelerator | VOV-11041 | 24894 | Large v2 REST queries that produced no results have been
fixed in the v3 REST API. Note: The problem still persists with
v2, the fix is in v3 only.
|
| Accelerator | VOV-11261 | Addressed issue where delays were encountered due to vovserver not being immediately notified of an update. | |
| Accelerator | VOV-12337 | Fixed timing issue with nc wait command when run immediately after submitting multiple jobs in background mode using nc run command | |
| Accelerator, Accelerator Plus | VOV-12305 | CS0120716 | Fixed issue that prevented the wxagent job in an Accelerator base queue from reflecting the job placement policy and priority of the user's job in an Accelerator Plus queue. |
| Accelerator | VOV-11657 | 25247 | Performance of vovselect and related Tcl commands has been improved in general, as well as specific enhancements for the ID field in all tables, and the WHY and FairShare-related fields in JOBS. |
| Accelerator | VOV-12023 | CS0120864 | Jobs that have been autokilled no longer show duplicate autokill reasons in the job status explanation. |
| Accelerator | VOV-12032 | The integrated REST HTTP server now has a separate log under SWD/logs/httpserver.log. | |
| Accelerator | VOV-12030 | CS0120906, CS0121020 | Fixed issue that caused taskers to be killed with the message “Tasker instructed to exit brutally”. This also fixes server messages like “Cannot find tasker rdc-cad-svr12 (illegal id 365667285) pid=32830" |
| Accelerator | VOV-12560 | Fixed nc stop -after option, which was not waiting for the specified number of seconds before issuing the stop request. | |
| Accelerator | VOV-12628 | CS0127402 | Fixed a bug where License: was prepended the resource name if the resource parameter was specified in vtk_flexlm_monitor, even if the resource name already started with License:. |
| Accelerator | VOV-12543 | Fixed a crash in vovserver caused by trying to select a job graph or node graph field from a set by name, e.g. "vovselect NODEGRAPH from System:jobs". | |
| Accelerator, Accelerator Plus, Monitor | VOV-10682 | 24282 | Features names such as set via vtkle_feature_set can now include the '+' character and will be handled properly via the web UI. |
| Accelerator, Accelerator Plus | VOV-12403 | CS0121177 | Fixed an issue where NUMA jobs that span multiple NUMA nodes would not return all cores used by the job to the free pool on job completion. |
| FlowTracer | VOV-10362 | 24393 | Fix to retrace all the jobs of selected sets in vovconsole hierarchically. |
| FlowTracer | VOV-12090 | The default product name is now "ft" and is no longer determined by a prefix of the project name. The product name "auto" is no longer supported. | |
| FlowTracer | VOV-12203 | CS0120999 | When a job is submitted by FlowTracer to an indirect tasker and the job is associated with a class, the resource list could contain duplicate entries because it was constructed as a union of two resource lists. Construction of the resource list now ensures duplicates are avoided. |
| Monitor | VOV-9100 | 23225 | Fixed LM report plotting with "Breakdown By Feature" option. |
| Monitor | VOV-12627 | CS0122686 | A defective hypertext link in the Monitor Administrator Guide labeled "Advanced Control of the Product Ports" has been repaired. |
| None | VOV-11221 | 25011 | Monitor email notifications set in the Admin->Notifications UI page using legacy mode email delivery had failed to successfully deliver email to the recipient. |
| All | VOV-10844 | Provide a REST API addition to allow job control. The following operations can be performed via the v3 REST API: 1. Dispatch 2. Forget 3. Preempt 4. Rerun 5. Resume 6. Suspend | |
| All | VOV-10913 | Fixed a bug that caused vovselect to issue an error when requesting the field "env" in all lowercase. | |
| All | VOV-9988 | Made the WHY property more prominent in the Main Reasons section of the output of vsy and related commands for FAILED jobs. | |
| Accelerator | VOV-8599 | 22097 | See VOV-11848. |