NODESET(1) ClusterShell User Manual NODESET(1)

nodeset - compute advanced nodeset operations

nodeset [OPTIONS] [COMMAND] [nodeset1 [OPERATION] nodeset2|...]


Note: nodeset and cluset are the same command.

nodeset is an utility command provided with the ClusterShell library which implements some features of ClusterShell's NodeSet and RangeSet Python classes. It provides easy manipulation of 1D or nD-indexed cluster nodes and node groups.

Also, nodeset is automatically bound to the library node group resolution mechanism. Thus, it is especially useful to enhance cluster aware administration shell scripts.

show program's version number and exit
show this help message and exit
optional groups.conf(5) group source to use
use alternate config file for groups.conf(5)

show number of nodes in nodeset(s)
expand nodeset(s) to separate nodes (see also -S SEPARATOR)
fold nodeset(s) (or separate nodes) into one nodeset
list node groups, list node groups and nodes (-ll) or list node groups, nodes and node count (-lll). When no argument is specified at all, this command will list all node group names found in selected group source (see also -s GROUPSOURCE). If any nodesets are specified as argument, this command will find node groups these nodes belongs to (individually). Optionally for each group, the fraction of these nodes being member of the group may be displayed (with -ll), and also member count/total group node count (with -lll). If a single hyphen-minus (-) is given as a nodeset, it will be read from standard input.
fold nodes using node groups (see -s GROUPSOURCE)
list all active group sources (see groups.conf(5))

exclude specified nodeset
calculate nodesets intersection
calculate symmetric difference between nodesets

call external node groups support to display all nodes
enable a-b/step style syntax when folding nodesets, value is min node count threshold (integer '4', percentage '50%' or 'auto'). If not specified, auto step is disabled (best for compatibility with other cluster tools. Example: autostep=4, "node2 node4 node6" folds in node[2,4,6] but autostep=3, "node2 node4 node6" folds in node[2-6/2].
output more messages for debugging purpose
be quiet, print essential output only
switch to RangeSet instead of NodeSet. Useful when working on numerical cluster ranges, eg. 1,5,18-31
hide group source prefix (always @groupname)
separator string to use when expanding nodesets (default: ' ')
output format (default: '%s')
return sliced off result; examples of SLICE_RANGESET are "0" for simple index selection, or "1-9/2,16" for complex rangeset selection
split result into a number of subsets
split result into contiguous subsets (ie. for nodeset, subsets will contain nodes with same pattern name and a contiguous range of indexes, like foobar[1-100]; for rangeset, subsets with consists in contiguous index ranges)"""
for nD nodesets, fold along provided axis only. Axis are indexed from 1 to n and can be specified here either using the rangeset syntax, eg. '1', '1-2', '1,3', or by a single negative number meaning that the indices is counted from the end. Because some nodesets may have several different dimensions, axis indices are silently truncated to fall in the allowed range.
pick N node(s) at random in nodeset




For a short explanation of these options, see -h, --help.

If a single hyphen-minus (-) is given as a nodeset, it will be read from standard input.

The nodeset command benefits from ClusterShell NodeSet basic arithmetic addition. This feature extends recognized string patterns by supporting operators matching all Operations seen previously. String patterns are read from left to right, by proceeding any character operators accordingly.

,
indicates that the union of both left and right nodeset should be computed before continuing
!
indicates the difference operation
&
indicates the intersection operation
^
indicates the symmetric difference (XOR) operation

Care should be taken to escape these characters as needed when the shell does not interpret them literally.

$ nodeset -f node[0-7],node[8-10]

node[0-10]

$ nodeset -f node[0-10]!node[8-10]

node[0-7]

$ nodeset -f node[0-10]&node[5-13]

node[5-10]

$ nodeset -f node[0-10]^node[5-13]

node[0-4,11-13]

$ nodeset -f @gpu^@slurm:bigmem!@chassis[1-9/2]

This computes a folded nodeset containing nodes found in group @gpu and @slurm:bigmem, but not in both, minus the nodes found in odd chassis groups from 1 to 9.

The @* and @SOURCE:* special notations may be used in extended patterns to represent all nodes (in SOURCE) according to the all external shell command (see groups.conf(5)) and are equivalent to:
$ nodeset [-s SOURCE] -a -f



The @@SOURCE notation may be used to access all group names from the specified SOURCE (or from the default group source when just @@ is used) in node set expressions; this works with either file-based group sources or with external group sources that have the list upcall defined (see groups.conf(5)):
$ nodeset -f @@rack

J[1-3]




Any wildcard mask found is matched against all nodes from the group source (see groups.conf(5) and the -a/--all option above). * means match zero or more characters of any type; ? means match exactly one character of any type. This can be especially useful for server farms, or when cluster node names differ.

$ nodeset -f -a

bckserv[1-2],dbserv[1-4],wwwserv[1-9]

$ nodeset -f 'www*'

wwwserv[1-9]

$ nodeset -f 'www*[1-4]'

wwwserv[1-4]

$ nodeset -f '*serv1'

bckserv1,dbserv1,wwwserv1


Wildcard masks are resolved prior to extended patterns, but each mask is evaluated as a whole node set operand. In the example below, we select all nodes matching *serv* before removing all nodes matching www*:

$ nodeset -f '*serv*!www*'

bckserv[1-2],dbserv[1-4]



An exit status of zero indicates success of the nodeset command. A non-zero exit status indicates failure.

$ nodeset -c node[0-7,32-159]

136

$ nodeset -c node[0-7,32-159] node[160-163]

140

$ nodeset -c dc[1-2]n[100-199]

200

$ nodeset -c @login

4

$ nodeset -f node[0-7,32-159] node[160-163]

node[0-7,32-163]

$ echo node3 node6 node1 node2 node7 node5 | nodeset -f

node[1-3,5-7]

$ nodeset -f dc1n2 dc2n2 dc1n1 dc2n1

dc[1-2]n[1-2]

$ nodeset --axis=1 -f dc1n2 dc2n2 dc1n1 dc2n1

dc[1-2]n1,dc[1-2]n2

$ nodeset -e node[160-163]

node160 node161 node162 node163

$ echo 'dc[1-2]n[2-6/2]' | nodeset -e

dc1n2 dc1n4 dc1n6 dc2n2 dc2n4 dc2n6

$ nodeset -f node[32-159] -x node33

node[32,34-159]

$ nodeset -f node[32-159] -i node[0-7,20-21,32,156-159]

node[32,156-159]

$ nodeset -f node[33-159] --xor node[32-33,156-159]

node[32,34-155]

$ nodeset --split=3 -e node[1-9]

node1 node2 node3
node4 node5 node6
node7 node8 node9

$ nodeset --contiguous -f node2 node3 node4 node8 node9

node[2-4]
node[8-9]

$ nodeset --contiguous -f dc[1,3]n[1-2,4-5]

dc1n[1-2]
dc1n[4-5]
dc3n[1-2]
dc3n[4-5]


Command syntax has been changed since nodeset command available with ClusterShell v1.1. Operations, like --intersection or -x, are now specified between nodesets in the command line.

$ nodeset -f -x node[3,5-6,9] node[1-9]

node[1-2,4,7-8]

$ nodeset -f node[1-9] -x node[3,5-6,9]

node[1-2,4,7-8]


cluset was added in 1.7.3 to avoid a conflict with xCAT's nodeset command and also to conform with ClusterShell's "clu*" command nomenclature.

clubak(1), cluset(1), clush(1), groups.conf(5).

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Stephane Thiell <sthiell@stanford.edu>

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2023-09-29 1.9.2