It would be nice if we had an easy way to make nodes available to hsg/csg/hpe for validation through pbs after hardware work, without letting regular users on them. A "testing" node state would be good for this.
This could be implemented in a few ways using [maintenance] reservations and/or modifying the qlist of nodes. Care should be taken to not crash pbs, and to also keep the output of regular pbs commands useful, e.g. don't make 10000 reservations as that would make seeing "real" reservations difficult.
It would be nice if we had an easy way to make nodes available to hsg/csg/hpe for validation through pbs after hardware work, without letting regular users on them. A "testing" node state would be good for this.
This could be implemented in a few ways using [maintenance] reservations and/or modifying the qlist of nodes. Care should be taken to not crash pbs, and to also keep the output of regular pbs commands useful, e.g. don't make 10000 reservations as that would make seeing "real" reservations difficult.