Re: [HTCondor-users] Need to "service condor restart" on the worker node to make server aware of worker node

[Stephen Jones <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/11/17 17:38, Greg Thain wrote:
> I'm moving to a Centos7 version of HTCondor, version 8.3.6.
> > I find I need to do "service condor restart" on the worker node to 
> > make server aware of worker node in the first place, else 
> > condor_status shows nothing.
> >
> > Is that normal? Shouldn't service on worker node try to connect to 
> > the head node every now and then? Is there a time limit?
>
> By default, the condor_startd updates the collector when it starts, 
> every time there is a significant state change, and also every five 
> minutes, in case the collector restarts. If the worker node is 
> running fine, a restart shouldn't be needed.

Thanks, Greg. The issue was about the firewall on the systems - HTCondor 
needs to use UDP for the comms between STARTD and COLLECTOR. When I 
allowed that, things kicked into life.

BTW: The problem showed up in CollectorLog on Central Server as follows.


12/14/17 11:35:35 DC_AUTHENTICATE: attempt to open invalid session 
XXX:2246741:1513180756:9392, failing; this session was requested by 
<192.168.XXX:31506> with return address 
<192.168.XXX:9618?addrs=192.168.XXX-9618+[--1]-9618&noUDP&sock=32620_2f6d>


Ste


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