How to Migrate qmaster to Another Host Manually

1. On the current master host, stop the master daemon and the scheduler daemon by typing the following command:

   qconf -ks -km

2. Edit the sge-root/cell/common/act_qmaster file according to the following guidelines:

   1. Confirm the new master host's name.

      To get the new master host name, type the following command on the new master host:

      sge-root/utilbin/$ARCH/gethostname

   2. In the act_qmaster file, replace the current host name with the new master host's name returned by the gethostname utility.

3. On the new master host, start sge_qmaster and sge_schedd:

   sge-root/cell/common/sge5