Configuring Checkpointing Environments With QMON (Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.1 Administration Guide)

Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.1 Administration Guide

Configuring Checkpointing Environments With `QMON`

On the QMON Main Control window, click the Checkpoint Configuration button. The Checkpointing Configuration dialog box appears.

Dialog box titled Checkpointing Configuration.
Shows list of Checkpoint Objects and configurations. Shows Add, Modify,
Delete, Done, Help buttons.

Viewing Configured Checkpointing Environments

To view previously configured checkpointing environments, select one of the checkpointing environment names listed under Checkpoint Objects. The corresponding configuration is displayed under Configuration.

Adding a Checkpointing Environment

In the Checkpointing Configuration dialog box, click Add. The Add/Modify Checkpoint Object dialog box appears, along with a template configuration that you can edit.

Dialog box titled Add/Modify Checkpoint Object.
Shows fields in which you can type checkpointing parameters. Shows
Ok and Cancel buttons.

Fill out the template with the requested information.

Click OK to register your changes with sge_qmaster. Click Cancel to close the dialog box without saving changes.

Modifying Checkpointing Environments

In the Checkpoint Objects list, select the name of the configured checkpointing environment you want to modify, and then click Modify. The Add/Modify Checkpoint Object dialog box appears, along with the current configuration of the selected checkpointing environment.

The Add/Modify Checkpoint Object dialog box enables you to change the following information:

Name
Checkpoint, Migration, Restart, and Clean command strings
Directory where checkpointing files are stored
Occasions when checkpoints must be initiated
Signal to send to job or application when a checkpoint is initiated

See the checkpoint(5) man page for details about these parameters.

In addition, you must define the Interface to use. The Interface is also called checkpointing method. From the Interface list under Name, select an Interface. See the checkpoint(5) man page for details about the meaning of the different interfaces.

Note –

For the checkpointing environments provided with the distribution of the grid engine system, change only the Name parameter and the Checkpointing Directory parameter.

Click OK to register your changes with sge_qmaster. Click Cancel to close the dialog box without saving changes.

Deleting Checkpointing Environments

To delete a configured checkpointing environment, select it, and then click Delete.