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S9Sv0.7

Enterprise Features

s9s is designed as a terminal UI interface for SLURM. For enterprise requirements, s9s leverages SLURM's native enterprise capabilities rather than reimplementing them.

Authentication

s9s relies on SLURM's native authentication mechanisms. All authentication and authorization is handled by SLURM directly — s9s respects whatever auth configuration your cluster uses.

See Configuration Guide for connection setup.

Enterprise Capabilities via SLURM

For enterprise requirements beyond authentication, s9s relies on SLURM's native capabilities:

Security & Access Control

SLURM provides:

  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) via PAM integration
  • Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
  • Account-based access control
  • Job submission policies and limits
  • Resource access restrictions

s9s integration:

  • s9s respects SLURM's authentication and authorization
  • All operations are subject to SLURM's security policies
  • User permissions are enforced by SLURM

High Availability & Scalability

SLURM provides:

  • Controller failover and redundancy
  • Distributed architecture
  • Multi-cluster federation
  • Database redundancy (MySQL, MariaDB with replication)

s9s integration:

  • Supports connections to highly available SLURM endpoints
  • Can be configured with multiple cluster contexts
  • No single point of failure when SLURM is configured for HA

Multi-Tenancy & Resource Management

SLURM provides:

  • Account hierarchies for organizational structure
  • Fair-share scheduling across accounts/users
  • Resource quotas and limits per account
  • QoS (Quality of Service) policies
  • Partition-based resource isolation

s9s integration:

  • Full visibility into account hierarchies
  • QoS and partition management views
  • User and account resource tracking
  • Reservation management

Audit & Compliance

SLURM provides:

  • Complete job accounting database
  • Detailed audit logs
  • Resource usage tracking
  • Job history and provenance

s9s integration:

  • Export job data to CSV/JSON for compliance reporting
  • Real-time monitoring of resource usage
  • Historical job data access

Monitoring & Observability

s9s provides:

  • Real-time cluster monitoring
  • Job and node status visibility
  • Resource utilization metrics
  • Optional observability plugin for Prometheus integration

See: Observability Plugin

Configuration for Enterprise Environments

Multiple Clusters

Configure multiple SLURM clusters:

defaultCluster: production

clusters:
  - name: production
    cluster:
      endpoint: "https://prod-slurm.example.com:6820"
      token: "${SLURM_JWT}"
      apiVersion: v0.0.44

  - name: development
    cluster:
      endpoint: "https://dev-slurm.example.com:6820"
      token: "${SLURM_DEV_JWT}"
      apiVersion: v0.0.43

  - name: research
    cluster:
      endpoint: "https://research-slurm.example.com:6820"
      token: "${SLURM_RESEARCH_JWT}"
      apiVersion: v0.0.44

Switch between clusters:

s9s --cluster production
s9s --cluster development

TLS Configuration

For secure communication with SLURM REST API:

clusters:
  - name: production
    cluster:
      endpoint: "https://slurm.example.com:6820"
      insecure: false  # Enforce TLS certificate validation
      timeout: 30s

Deployment Considerations

Container Deployment

s9s can be deployed in containerized environments:

FROM alpine:latest
COPY s9s /usr/local/bin/s9s
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/s9s

# s9s is an interactive TUI application
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/s9s"]

Note: s9s is a terminal UI application and does not have a non-interactive jobs --format json mode. For non-interactive SLURM data access, use scontrol or sacct directly, or the SLURM REST API.

SSH Integration

For direct node access in enterprise environments, s9s uses your system's default SSH configuration automatically. There is no ssh: section in the s9s configuration file.

See the SSH Integration Guide for details on how SSH connections are handled.

Future Development

Additional enterprise features are under consideration:

  • Advanced backup and recovery capabilities
  • Extended API integrations
  • Enhanced multi-cluster management

For feature requests or to discuss enterprise requirements, please open a discussion or file an issue.

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