REPORTING(5)

NAME
reporting - Grid Engine reporting file format

DESCRIPTION
A Grid Engine system writes a reporting file $SGE_ROOT/$SGE_CELL/common/reporting if reporting=true is specified in the reporting_params. This occurs intervals of the flush_time specified in the same place. The reporting file contains data that can be used for accounting, monitoring and analysis purposes. It contains information about the cluster (hosts, queues, load values, consumables, etc.), about the jobs running in the cluster and about sharetree configuration and usage. All information is time-related and events are dumped to the reporting file in a configurable interval. It allows "real time" monitoring of the cluster status as well as historical analysis.

FORMAT
The reporting file is an ASCII file. Each line contains one record, and the fields of a record are separated by a delimiter (:). The reporting file contains records of different type. Each record type has a specific record structure.

The first two fields are common to all reporting records:

time
    The time when the record was created. All time values described here are the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC).

record type
    Type of the accounting record.

The different types of records and their structure are described below, eliding the leading time and record type fields in each case.

  new_job
The new_job record is written whenever a new job enters the system (usually by a submission command). It has the following fields:

submission_time
    Time when the job was submitted.

job_number
    The job number.

task_number
    The array task id. Always has the value -1 for new_job records (as array tasks haven't been created at that stage).

pe_taskid
    The task id of parallel tasks. Always has the value "none" for new_job records.

job_name
    The job name (from -N submission option).

owner
    The job owner.

group
    The Unix group of the job owner.

project
    The project the job is running in.

department
    The department the job owner is in.

account
    The account string specified for the job (from the -A submission option).

priority
    The job priority (from the -p submission option).

  job_log
If joblog=true is specified in the reporting_params, a job_log record is written whenever a job, an array task or a PE task changes status. A status change can be the transition from pending to running, but can also be triggered by user actions, like suspension of a job. It has the following fields:

event_time
    Time when the event was generated.

event
    A one word description of the event.

job_number
    The job number.

task_number
    The PE task id. Always has the value -1 for new_job records (as parallel tasks haven't been created at that stage).

pe_taskid
    The task id of parallel tasks. Always has the value "none" for new_job records.

state
    The state of the job after the event was processed.

user
    The user who initiated the event (or special usernames "qmaster", "scheduler" and "execd" for actions of the system itself like scheduling jobs, executing jobs etc.).

host
    The host from which the action was initiated (e.g. the submit host, the qmaster host, etc.).

state_time
    Reserved field for later use.

submission_time
    Time when the job was submitted.

job_name
    The job name (from the -N submission option).

owner
    The job owner.

group
    The Unix group of the job owner.

project
    The project the job is running in.

department
    The department the job owner is in.

account
    The account string specified for the job (from the -A submission option).

priority
    The job priority (from the -p submission option).

message
    A message describing the reported action.

  acct
Records of type acct are accounting records. Normally, they are written whenever a job, a task of an array job, or a task of a parallel job terminates. However, for long running jobs an intermediate acct record is created once a day after midnight. This results in multiple accounting records for a particular job and allows for fine-grained resource usage monitoring over time.

Accounting records have the structure described in with the addition of leading time and type fields (which are not used in the accounting file).

  queue
Records of type queue contain state information for queues (queue instances). A queue record has the following fields:

qname
    The cluster queue name.

hostname
    The hostname of a specific queue instance.

report_time
    The time when a state change was triggered.

state
    The new queue state. The possible states are single-letter values, as reported by with the -q option.

  queue_consumable
A queue_consumable record contains information about queue consumable values in addition to queue state information:

qname
    The cluster queue name.

hostname
    The hostname of a specific queue instance.

report_time
    The time when a state change was triggered.

state
    The new queue state.

consumables
    Description of consumable values. Information about multiple consumables is separated by space. A consumable description has the format name=actual_value=configured_value.

Consumables are only logged if log_consumables=true is specified in the reporting_params, or the consumable is specified in the local or global report_variables.

  host
A host record contains information about hosts and host load values. It contains the following information:

hostname
    The name of the host.

report_time
    The time when the reported information was generated.

state
    The new host state. Currently, Grid Engine doesn't track a host state; the field is reserved for future use. Always contains the value X.

load values
    Description of load values. Information about multiple load values is separated by space. A load value description has the format name=actual_value.

  host_consumable
A host_consumable record contains information about hosts and host consumables. Host consumables can, for example, be licenses. It contains the following information:

hostname
    The name of the host.

report_time
    The time when the reported information was generated.

state
    The new host state. Currently, Grid Engine doesn't track a host state; the field is reserved for future use. Always contains the value X.

consumables
    Description of consumable values. Information about multiple consumables is separated by space. A consumable description has the format name=actual_value=configured_value.

Consumables are only logged if log_consumables=true is specified in the reporting_params, or the consumable is specified in the local or global report_variables.

  sharelog
The Grid Engine qmaster can dump information about sharetree configuration and use to the reporting file. The reporting_params can specify sharelog, which sets an interval in which sharetree information will be dumped. It is set in the format HH:MM:SS. A value of 00:00:00 configures qmaster not to dump sharetree information. Intervals of several minutes up to hours are sensible values for this parameter. The record contains the following fields

current time
    The present time

usage time
    The time used so far

node name
    The node name

user name
    The user name

project name
    The project name

shares
    The total shares

job count
    The job count

level
    The percentage of shares used

total
    The adjusted percentage of shares used

long target share
    The long target percentage of resource shares used

short target share
    The short target percentage of resource shares used

actual share
    The actual percentage of resource shares used

usage
    The combined shares used

cpu The number of CPU seconds used

mem The time integral of memory used (in GB seconds)

io  The IO done (in GB)

long target cpu
    The long target cpu used

long target mem
    The long target memory used

long target io
    The long target IO used

  new_ar
A new_ar record contains information about advance reservation objects. Entries of this type will be added if an advance reservation is created. It contains the following information:

submission_time
    The time when the advance reservation was created.

ar_number
    The advance reservation number identifying the reservation.

ar_owner
    The owner of the advance reservation.

  ar_attribute
The ar_attribute record is written whenever a new advance reservation was added or the attribute of an existing advance reservation has changed. It has the following fields.

event_time
    The time when the event was generated.

submission_time
    The time when the advance reservation was created.

ar_number
    The advance reservation number identifying the reservation.

ar_name
    Name of the advance reservation.

ar_account
    An account string which was specified during the creation of the advance reservation.

ar_start_time
    Start time.

ar_end_time
    End time.

ar_granted_pe
    The parallel environment which was selected for an advance reservation.

ar_granted_resources
    The granted resources which were selected for an advance reservation.

  ar_log
The ar_log record is written whenever an advance reservation changes status. A status change can be from pending to active, but can also be triggered by system events like host outage. It has the following fields.

ar_state_change_time
    The time when the event occurred which caused a state change.

submission_time
    The time when the advance reservation was created.

ar_number
    The advance reservation number identifying the reservation.

ar_state
    The new state.

ar_event
    An event id identifying the event which caused the state change.

ar_message
    A message describing the event which caused the state change.

  ar_acct
The ar_acct records are accounting records which are written for every queue instance whenever an advance reservation terminates. Advance reservation accounting records comprise following fields.

ar_termination_time
    The time when the advance reservation terminated.

submission_time
    The time when the advance reservation was created.

ar_number
    The advance reservation number identifying the reservation.

ar_qname
    Cluster queue name which the advance reservation reserved.

ar_hostname
    The name of the execution host.

ar_slots
    The number of slots which were reserved.

FILES
$SGE_ROOT/$SGE_CELL/common/reporting

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