Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.1 Installation Guide

Adding Windows Hosts to Existing N1 Grid Engine Systems

If you have a running N1 Grid Engine system on which Windows support is not enabled, you can enable the support manually. The following steps provide a Windows-enabled N1 Grid Engine system that allows additional Windows execution hosts.

ProcedureHow to Add Windows Hosts Later

  1. Copy Windows binaries to the <sge-root> directory.

  2. Type the following command:

    qconf -mconf

    Set the execd_params to "enable_windomacc=true."

  3. Type the following command:

    qconf -am <win_admin_name>

  4. Run the following command:

    $SGE_ROOT/util/sgeCA/sge_ca -init -days 365

  5. For a CSP installation, run the following command:

    $SGE_ROOT/util/sgeCA/sge_ca -user <win_admin_name>

  6. Type the following command:

    qconf -ah <new_win_hosts>

  7. Copy certificates to each Windows host.

  8. Set the owner of the certificates to ADMINUSER

    Use a command similar to the following example:


    chown -R foo:bar /var/sgeCA/port<SGE_QMASTER_PORT>
  9. Run normal exec daemon installation on each execution host.