Re: [Condor-users] Dynamic Pool Configuration

[Jyotishman Pathak <jyotishman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree. So, is it not possible for a particular node to be a member
for more than one pool or subscribe to more than one manager?

- Jyoti.

On 7/7/05, Rajesh Rajamani <raj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Condor supports only one Central Manager per pool.

Jyotishman Pathak wrote:
> Hi Rajesh,
>
> Thank you for your reply and the pointers. It sure helped. However, I
> think in a grid infrastructure and assuming that a particular node will
> report to many central managers, it is hard to envision *all* the values
> for CONDOR_HOST beforehand. In other words, if a node comes alive, it
> should be dynamically inducted into a condor pool based on some
> heuristics (e.g., locality), as opposed to hardwiring the condor control
> manager that it will report to.
>
> I am not sure if my point makes sense here. Please let me know your views.
>
> Regards,
> Jyoti.
>
>
>
>
> On 7/7/05, *Rajesh Rajamani* <raj@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:raj@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>      >
>      > Imagine I have a condor pool of 50 machines which are
>     monitored/managed
>      > by some "parent node". Based upon the status of these 50 nodes,
>     the jobs
>      > are submitted to them.
>
>     When you say "monitored/managed", do you mean the Condor system or a
>     third-party management software?  I'm assuming it is the former.  Check
>     out
>     http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/3_1Introduction.html#SECTION00411000000000000000
>     <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/3_1Introduction.html#SECTION00411000000000000000>
>     for information about the Central Manager
>
>      > Now, think of a new node (51st machine) that has been provisioned by
>      > some resource allocator. This node was not a part of the original
>     condor
>      > pool. In other words, originally the "parent node" is not aware
>     of this
>      > new node. My question is -- how do I make the parent node aware
>     of the
>      > fact that a new machine has arrived (and it needs to be included
>     in the
>      > pool and can be used for job execution, monitoring etc.) ?
>
>     Resources report to the collector, which then works with the negotiator
>     to schedule jobs.  All you need to do is use the proper value for
>     CONDOR_HOST in the config file of the new "node".  See
>     http://12.22.53.199:6080/display/CONDOR/CONDOR_HOST for details.
>
>
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