calendar_conf.5




NAME

       calendar_conf - Grid Engine calendar configuration file format


DESCRIPTION

       calendar_conf defines the format of the Grid Engine calendar
       configuration. The definition of calendars is used to specify "on duty"
       and "off duty" time periods for Grid Engine queues on a time of day,
       day of week, or day of year basis. Various calendars can be
       implemented, and the appropriate calendar definition for a certain
       class of jobs can be attached to a queue.

       calendar_conf entries can be added, modified and displayed with the
       -Acal, -acal, -Mcal, -mcal, -scal and -scall options to qconf(1) or
       with the calendar configuration dialog of the graphical user interface
       qmon(1).

       Note that jobs may be dispatched incorrectly into calendar windows
       which are too short unless resource reservation is turned on by setting
       max_reservation in sched_conf(5).

       Note, Grid Engine allows backslashes (\) to escape newline characters.
       The backslash and the newline are replaced with a space (" ") character
       before any interpretation.


FORMAT

       A configuration comprises three lines of this form, whose contents are
       described in the following sections:

            calendar_name  calendar_name
            yesr  year
            day  day

   calendar_name
       The name of the calendar to be used when attaching it to queues, or
       when administering the calendar definition. See calendar_name in
       sge_types(5) for a precise definition of valid calendar names.

   year
       The queue status definition on a day of the year basis. This field
       generally will specify on which days of a year (and optionally at which
       times on those days) a queue, to which the calendar is attached, will
       change to a certain state. The syntax of the year field is defined as
       follows:

       year :=
           NONE
           | year_day_range_list=daytime_range_list[=state]
           | year_day_range_list=[daytime_range_list=]state
           | state

       Where

       o  NONE means no definition is made on the year basis;

       o  If a definition is made on the year basis, at least one of
          year_day_range_list, daytime_range_list and state always have to be
          present;

       o  All day long is assumed if daytime_range_list is omitted;

       o  Switching the queue to "off" (i.e. disabling it) is assumed if state
          is omitted;

       o  The queue is assumed to be enabled for days neither referenced
          implicitly (by omitting the year_day_range_list) nor explicitly.

       The syntactical components are defined as follows:

         year_day_range_list := {yearday-yearday | yearday},...
         daytime_range_list :=  hour[:minute][:second]-hour[:minute][:second],...
         state :=     on | off | suspended
         year_day :=  month_day.month.year
         month_day := 1 | 2 | ... | 31
         month :=     jan | feb | ... | dec | 1 | 2 | ... | 12
         year :=      1970 | 1971 | ... | 2037

   week
       The queue status definition on a day of the week basis. This field
       generally will specify on which days of the week (and optionally at
       which times on those days) a queue to which the calendar is attached
       will change to a certain state. The syntax of the week field is defined
       as follows:

       week:=
           NONE
           | week_day_range_list[=daytime_range_list][=state]
           | [week_day_range_list=]daytime_range_list[=state]
           | [week_day_range_list=][daytime_range_list=]state ...

       where

       o  NONE means, no definition is made on the week basis;

       o  If a definition is made on the week basis, at least one of
          week_day_range_list, daytime_range_list and state always have to be
          present;

       o  Every day in the week is assumed if week_day_range_list is omitted;

       o  Syntax and semantics of daytime_range_list and state are identical
          to the definition given for the year field above;

       o  The queue is assumed to be enabled for days neither referenced
          implicitly (by omitting the week_day_range_list) nor explicitly.

       and where week_day_range_list is defined as

         week_day_range_list := {weekday-weekday | weekday},...
         week_day :=  mon | tue | wed | thu | fri | sat | sun

       With week_day ranges the week_day identifiers must be different.


SEMANTICS

       Successive entries to the year and week fields (separated by blanks)
       are combined in accordance with the following rule:

       o  off areas are overridden by overlapping on and suspended areas and
          suspended areas are overridden by on areas.

       Hence an entry of the form

         week  12-18 tue=13-17=on

       means that queues referencing the corresponding calendar are disabled
       for the entire week from 12.00-18.00, with the exception of Tuesday
       between 13.00-17.00, when the queues are available.


       o  Area overriding occurs only within a year/week basis. If a year
          entry exists for a day, then only the year calendar is taken into
          account, and no area overriding is done with a possibly conflicting
          week area.


       o  The second time specification in a daytime_range_list may be before
          the first one and treated as expected. Thus an entry of the form

            year  12.03.2004=12-11=off

          causes the queue(s) be disabled on 12.03.2004 from 00:00:00 -
          10:59:59 and 12:00:00 - 23:59:59.


EXAMPLES

       (The following examples are contained in the directory
       $SGE_ROOT/util/resources/calendars.)

       o  Night, weekend and public holiday calendar:

          On public holidays "night" queues are explicitly enabled. On working
          days queues are disabled between 6.00 and 20.00. Saturday and Sunday
          are implicitly handled as enabled times:

            calendar_name  night
            year           1.1.1999,6.1.1999,28.3.1999,30.3.1999-
            31.3.1999,18.5.1999-19.5.1999,3.10.1999,25.12.1999,26
            .12.1999=on
            week           mon-fri=6-20


       o  Day calendar:

          On public holidays "day"-queues are disabled. On working days such
          queues are closed during the night between 20.00 and 6.00, i.e. the
          queues are also closed on Monday from 0.00 to 6.00 and on Friday
          from 20.00 to 24.00. On Saturday and Sunday the queues are disabled.

            calendar_name  day
            year           1.1.1999,6.1.1999,28.3.1999,30.3.1999-
            31.3.1999,18.5.1999-19.5.1999,3.10.1999,25.12.1999,26
            .12.1999
            week           mon-fri=20-6 sat-sun


       o  Night, weekend and public holiday calendar with suspension:

          Essentially the same scenario as the first example but queues are
          suspended instead of switching them "off".

            calendar_name  night_s
            year           1.1.1999,6.1.1999,28.3.1999,30.3.1999-
            31.3.1999,18.5.1999-19.5.1999,3.10.1999,25.12.1999,26
            .12.1999=on
            week           mon-fri=6-20=suspended


       o  Day calendar with suspension:

          Essentially the same scenario as the second example, but queues are
          suspended instead of switching them "off".

            calendar_name  day_s
            year           1.1.1999,6.1.1999,28.3.1999,30.3.1999-
            31.3.1999,18.5.1999-19.5.1999,3.10.1999,25.12.1999,26
            .12.1999=suspended
            week           mon-fri=20-6=suspended sat-sun=suspended


       o  Weekend calendar with suspension, ignoring public holidays:

          Settings are only done on the week basis, with no settings on the
          year basis (keyword "NONE").

            calendar_name  weekend_s
            year           NONE
            week           sat-sun=suspended



SEE ALSO

       sge_intro(1), sge__types(1), qconf(1), queue_conf(5).


COPYRIGHT

       See sge_intro(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.



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