In ecflow 5 support has been added to view the output of the ECF_STATUS_CMD. The status command invokes a user supplied command, that querys the status of the job.
The status command can be invoked from the command line and GUI.
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The command should be written in such a way that the output is written to %ECF_JOB%.stat, and if the script determines that the job is not active, if it should abort the task in ecflow. This command can be particularly useful when nodes on the super computer goes down, and we don't know the true state of the jobs.
This will allow the output of status command to be shown by the --file command on the command line, and automatically via the job status tab in ecflow_ui
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