Re: [HTCondor-users] condor_q -better-analyze: "Could not fetch startd ads"

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/31/2020 6:20 PM, Wesley Taylor wrote:
> Hey all, its me again.
>
> Finally got HTCondor ready for preliminary smoke testing on the production network, and have been debugging issues as we go. There has been one really weird error I haven't been able to figure out on my own. When I run "condor_q" it runs fine. However, if I run "condor_q -analyze" or "condor_q -better-analyze" I get back "Error: Could not fetch startd ads".

On the same machine where "condor_q" works but "condor_q -analyze" fails, does "condor_status" work for you?

If "condor_status" also does not work, then my guess is the security permissions on your pool's central manager are 
setup in a manner that is now allowing read access to the condor_collector from the machine where condor_status/condor_q 
-analyze fails. From this same machine try running this command to confirm/deny if read access is being blocked:

  condor_ping -pool condor.cs.wisc.edu -type collector READ

If you can connect but READ is being denied, look at the ALLOW_READ setting in the condor_config file(s) on your central 
manager.

Hope the above helps
Todd