Re: [Condor-users] excel on condor

[zeeshan patoli <m.z.patoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello
Sorry for direct email
 
I desperately need some one to help me
 
I have a problem with installing condor on two machines [Central manager (linux), and Job Sumission(Windows)] I am trying from last four days. my both machines are on same domain, and network is working absolutely fine! The central machine shows every thing locally and submitter machine gives error when i try to execute condor_status command
 
C:\condor\bin>condor_status
CEDAR:6001:Failed to connect to <139.184.54.44:9618>
Error: Couldn't contact the condor_collector on
aquarium.rn.informatics.scitech.susx.ac.uk.
Extra Info: the condor_collector is a process that runs on the central
manager of your Condor pool and collects the status of all the machines and
jobs in the Condor pool. The condor_collector might not be running, it might
be refusing to communicate with you, there might be a network problem, or
there may be some other problem. Check with your system administrator to fix
this problem.
If you are the system administrator, check that the condor_collector is
running on aquarium.rn.informatics.scitech.susx.ac.uk, check the HOSTALLOW
configuration in your condor_config, and check the MasterLog and CollectorLog
files in your log directory for possible clues as to why the condor_collector
is not responding. Also see the Troubleshooting section of the manual.

It seems i am doing some mistakes during configuration in files.
 
Looking for hearing you.
 
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Muhammad Zeeshan Patoli,
Postgraduate Student,
University Of Sussex,
United Kingdom.
&
Lecturer,
University of Sindh,
Jamshoro, Pakistan.
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> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:31:32 -0400
> From: dchung@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] excel on condor
>
> We have some users who run similar Excel apps with macros. First, get
> your jobs transferring the xls file correctly as Ben suggested. Then,
> try using remote desktop to access the machine as the executing user to
> make sure you can open the xls file. If this is the first time using
> Excel as that user on the machine, Excel may prompt you for the user
> initials. You'll also want to set the macro security to low. Try
> closing and opening the Excel app again to make sure it opens cleanly
> without user intervention.
>
> Then, configure your machine with USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP = true. That
> worked for us - good luck.
>
> -David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tkacheff GS14
> Jeffrey C
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:13 AM
> To: Condor-Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] excel on condor
>
> hi ben,
>
> thanks for all your efforts on this. we run a couple of large scheduling
> sims that use excel and vba. because of the random nature of the
> application
> we need to do multiple iterations of the datasets. that is why we
> thought
> and still think that condor could be an answer to our problems. going
> through this drill I found out some interesting things about excel macro
> security settings. the macro security settings are not part of the
> workbook
> but part of the individual machines registry settings. if you set the
> workbooks macro to low, (so you will not get the "enable macro" popup),
> save
> it and then share across the network, the workbook will default to the
> security settings of the machine that is looking at it, not what you set
> in
> the workbook. to get around this I had to set a new variable in the all
> the
> machine's registry of the cluster. when excel first starts up, it looks
> at
> the excel security settings that set are in the registry and sets that
> for
> the workbook.
>
> but with that said... it still did not work. I almost think it is the
> way
> that arguments are passed to excel. to run excel from the command line
> you
> would type... excel.exe "c:\sdk2.xls", the argument here "c:\sdk2.xls"
> is
> actually the workbook and not a simple value. when condor starts a
> remote
> job does it know that the excel argument is a workbook and probably has
> to
> be copy over to be worked upon?
>
> I think if we put some effort into solving this problem we would open
> condor
> up to a whole new user community.
>
> let me know if I can help in any way.
>
> thx again
> jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben Burnett
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 16:19
> To: 'Condor-Users Mail List'
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] excel on condor
>
> Hi Jeff:
>
> I've got some bad news, and some good news:
>
> I've apparently misled you. A colleague of mine has informed me that
> Excel
> actually requires access to the current user's registry (although this
> may
> have changed). The problem with this is that Condor currently does not
> load
> the user's profile (which includes the user's registry entries)-- even
> when
> you tell it to run as a particular user. We do this for efficiency
> reasons,
> because some users may have huge profiles that take a long time to load.
>
> You may be able to circumvent this problem by writing a batch file that
> launches Excel using the "runas" command. This, however, would require
> that
> you have a common user on all the execute machines (to run as), and that
> you
> supply a password to the "runas" command-- which has obvious security
> implications.
>
> The good news, however, is that we will be adding the ability to load
> user
> profiles to a future version of Condor.
>
> -B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tkacheff GS14
> Jeffrey
> C
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:05 PM
> To: Condor-Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] excel on condor
>
> hi ben,
> you got me further down the road with the submit file. it seems now what
> it
> is doing is starting excel on the idle cpu, but it is not executing the
> workbook.
>
> first I condor_submit the submit file, then I see what machine it
> grabbed
> thru condor_status. I go over to that machine and bring up task manager,
> it
> will show excel as one of the processes executing but it is not using
> any
> cpu time. it looks like excel started but it is not executing the
> workbook.
>
> we have the workbook set to start running once it is opened. I tried
> running
> it from the command line and it worked just fine. I used c:\Program
> Files\Microsoft Office\Office\excel.exe "c:\sdk2.xls".
>
> any other suggestions?
>
> thx
> jeff
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben Burnett
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 15:38
> To: 'Condor-Users Mail List'
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] excel on condor
>
> Hi Jeff:
>
>
>
> Assuming you workbook app starts running when you open it, and that
> Excel is
> installed on all the execute nodes, you should be able to use something
> akin
> to the following:
>
>
>
> universe = vanilla
> executable = <enter your ms office path here>\excel.exe
>
> arguments = C:\sdk2.xls
>
> transfer_executable = false
>
> error = c:\sdk2.err
>
> queue
>
>
>
> What happened with your submission is that Condor does not know how to
> execute Excel data files, it only handles executables and batch files.
>
>
>
> -B
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tkacheff GS14
> Jeffrey
> C
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:28 PM
> To: condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Condor-users] excel on condor
>
>
>
> et al,
>
> new user to condor.
>
> we have an excel workbook app that we would like to run multiple times
> on
> our condor cluster as a test. if the test is successful then we will
> move
> our bigger excel models over for multiple runs.
>
> this some things that I have tried.
>
> I noticed that I can start the workbook from the command prompt just by
> entering the name at the command prompt. this will start the excel app
> running. armed with this knowledge I built a "submit" file for the
> condor_submit command that looks like this.
>
> universe = vanilla
> executable = c:\sdk2.xls
> error = c:\sdk2.err
> queue
>
> when I run this file with condor_submit, the command runs with no
> errors, a
> computer in the cluster is "claimed" and nothing happens. the app should
> take about 15 minutes to execute, but is over in a couple of seconds.
>
> does anyone have any working knowledge of launching excel apps on
> condor?
>
> thx
> jeff tkacheff
>
>
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