Some commands accept a cluster name as first parameter. The full manual page is available online. The status of submitted jobs can be displayed by the command bjobs . Job output By default LSF returns the job output by mail after the execution is completed. At CERN the output is moved to a subdirectory created in the submission directory, and the mail just returns to the user the full path of this subdirectory.
Users can anyway use the -o option of bsub to define their own output file.
The command lsclusters shows information about LSF clusters known by this host. The command bhosts displays the number and the status of batch jobs in each host of the local cluster. The command bqueues displays a list of batch queues available in the local system. The command bparams displays the name of the default queue, when bsub is invoked with no options. The command bclusters displays a list of local queues together with their relationship with queues in remote equivalent clusters.