Re: [HTCondor-users] Help on FLOCK and CCB

[Ben Cotton <ben.cotton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Batsayan Das <batsayan.das@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there and simple guide on  how  " we had flocking set up with several
> other institutions" ? The manuals are too exhaustive!!

The basics were to set FLOCK_TO on the schedds to include the central
managers of the other pools and to set FLOCK_FROM on the central
managers and execute nodes to include the schedulers of the other
pools.

In practice, we had to tweak some of our security settings in order to
work with the configuration at one of the other sites, but since
you're (probably) similarly-configured across the two pools, you
probably won't have to worry about that.

> How can I test the flocking setup configuration between pool A and B, before
> actual deployment?

You can't, really. Setting FLOCK_FROM won't do much if nothings
flocking *to* a pool, so you can do that first. Then you can set up a
test schedd that has FLOCK_TO set. Set your test jobs requirements
such that nothing in pool A matches and machines in pool B match. If
your job runs, flocking is successfully configured.


Thanks,
BC

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