Platform LSF Log files

[ankitd]

Hello Experts,

I am trying to reach the lsb.events log and lsb.acct log to understand the information being written into it so that I can use an automated script to extract the information.

I have referred the online documentation against both these log files:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSWRJV_10.1.0/lsf_config_ref/lsb.acct.5.html

I am trying to understand where does LSF store the date value in the record. I am able to identify the timestamp but not the date.

Below is a sample record for your reference of LSB.ACCT

"JOB_FINISH" "10.1" 1601151045 523 503 33554434 1 1601151044 0 0 1601151045 "sas" "normal" "" "" "" "abc.demo.sas.com" "/opt/sasinside" "" "" "" "1601151044.523" 0 1 "xyz.demo.sas.com" 32 60.0 "" "abc.sas" 0.003999 0.009998 1660 0 -1 0 0 1042 0 0 0 8 -1 0 0 0 11 2 -1 "" "default" 32512 1 "" "" 0 0 0 "" "" "" "" 0 "" 0 "" -1 "/sas" "" "" "" -1 "" "" 1040 "" 1601151045 "" "" 3 1041 "jfincache" 1032 "0" 1033 "0" 0 -1 0 0 "select[type == local] order[r15s:pg] " "" -1 "" -1 0 "" 0 0 "" 0 "/opt/sasinside" 0 "" 0.000000 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1 "xyz.demo.sas.com" -1 0 0 0

Reference record of LSB.EVENTS

"JOB_NEW" "10.1" 1601151044 523 503 33554434 1 1601151044 0 0 -65535 0 0 "sas" -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 "" 60.00 2 "normal" "" "abc.demo.sas.com" "/opt/sasinside" "" "" "" "" "/home/sas" "1601151044.523" 0 "" "" "" "abc.sas" 0 "" "default" 1 "X86_64" "" "" "" "" 1040 0 "" "" "" -1 -1 -1 0 "" "" -1 "" 0 -1 "" "" 1 1041 "jfincache" 0 0 "" -1 "" -1 "" "/opt/sasinside" "" "" "" 0 -1 0 "" "" 0

Thanks in advance,

Ankit.

[doug_sas]

Rather than try to decode their records, I would just write a C program that uses their LS & LSB API.

The API is described here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWRJV_10.1.0/api_reference/index.html

The lsb_geteventrec() and ls_getacctrec() APIs will get the information you are looking for.

[kdebruhl]

@doug_sas has a good idea.  (People still use C?  Just kidding of course... Perl is my go-to!)

We use the 'jhist' command and parse that output with SAS.  

https://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/platform/PSS9.1/lsf9.1.3_command_ref.pdf

I'd say the code is still not trivial, but perhaps easier than parsing the log files directly.

FWIW, those numbers look like Unix timestamps to me (1601151044).

[ankitd · Accepted solution]

Thanks @doug_sas  and @kdebruhl for your valuable inputs, unfortunately owing to client security policies we do not have a direct access to the SAS environment and receive only the LSF files for analysis.

Have finally managed to decrypt the date time in a user readable format by using the below Linux command

date -u -d @dateinteger (present in the LSF file)