Common Administrative Tasks for Grid Engine

Qconf is the command used for most administrative tasks. This HOWTO contains a selection of the most frequently used options. See qconf(1) for more details.

Adding and removing administrative privileges from a host

• qconf -ah # gives host administrative privileges

• qconf -dh # removes administrative privileges from host

Adding an execution host

• Make the new host an administrative host
  
  qconf -ah <hostname>

• As root on this new host, run the following script from $SGE_ROOT
  
  install_execd

Removing an execution host

• First, delete the queues associated with this host
  
  qconf -dq <queuenames...>

• Delete the host
  
  qconf -de <hostname>

• Finally, delete the configuration for the host
  
  qconf -dconf <hostname>

Adding and removing submit hosts

• qconf -as <hostname> # host is now a submit host

• qconf -ds <hostname> # jobs may not be submitted from host

Displaying current administrative/submit/execution hosts

• qconf -sh # show current administrative hosts

• qconf -ss # show current submit hosts

• qconf -sel # show current execution host list

Administering queues

• qconf -aq <queuename> # adding a queue

• qconf -dq <queuename> # delete a queue

• qconf -mq <queuename> # modify a queue

• qconf -Aq <filename> # adding a queue from file

• qconf -mattr queue ... # change single attributes of more than one queue