Re: [HTCondor-users] COLLECTOR_NAME

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/18/2013 11:35 PM, Andrew Mole wrote:
> What exactly does the COLLECTOR_NAME do, and does it need to be set to
> be the same on all machines in the pool?
>
> I have looked in the manual, but all it says is that:
>
> “The parameter is used to specify a short description of your pool. It
> should be about 20 characters long. For example, the name of the
> UW-Madison Computer Science Condor Pool is ``UW-Madison CS''.”
>
> Does it matter if the names do not match in all the config files (and
> are they case-sensitive)? After all, the CONDOR_HOST is set separately.
> If it does not matter, what name is announced to the world as the pool name?

COLLECTOR_NAME is only used by the condor_collector daemon.

The name announced to the world as the pool name is the value read by 
the condor_collector.

Best,


matt