Re: [HTCondor-users] hooks (machine attributes)

[Michael V Pelletier <Michael.V.Pelletier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/14/2016 12:30 PM
 
> On the cluster I admin, there is a software package that is installed
on 
> all of the machines but is licensed on only some. I wrote a bash script
> that exits with an error code if the machine is not licensed. The
script 
> exits with an exit code of zero if the machine is licensed. When an
end 
> user tries to run the software on an unlicensed machine, it runs this
> script first and then prints instructions if the machine is unlicensed.
> Else it just runs the software.
> 
> For condor users, I would like to make a variable available that they
> can put in their requirements. I'm unclear on how to do that. The
> documentation for hooks has an example that seems to be similar to
what 
> I want. But I can't find any clear howtos on this.
> -- -- John G. Heim; jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; sip://jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

John, what you're looking for here isn't actually
a hook, but a
"machine attribute."

It may be possible to write a "startd_cron"
job to run a script to probe
the machine to see if it has a license for the software,
but in your
case it may be simpler to define it in the configuration
instead. Suppose
you had the software licensed for machines A, B, and
D, but not C:

HasLicensedSoftware = ( \
        Machine == "machine_a.math.wisc.edu"
|| \
        Machine == "machine_b.math.wisc.edu"
|| \
        Machine == "machine_d.math.wisc.edu"
)
STARTD_ATTRS = $(STARTD_ATTRS) HasLicensedSoftware

To get the exact machine name you'll need to use,
run this command:
        condor_status
machine_a -af Machine

With the above, on these three machines, the "HasLicensedSoftware"
attribute will be True, but on machine_c, it will
be False.

Your users will then put the following in the requirements:

        requirements =
HasLicensedSoftware

With this, the jobs will only match to machines where
they're actually
allowed to run.

I used exactly this idea for an application which
uses hardware
license cards, in fact. In that case, I wrote a OneShot
startd_cron
job that would run "lspci" and if it detected
the card it would set
the appropriate attribute to True, and then the job
submissions
would look for that attribute.

        -Michael Pelletier.
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