Common Administrative Tasks for Grid Engine



Qconf is the command used for most administrative tasks. This HOWTO contains a selection of the most frequently used options. See qconf(1) for more details.

Adding and removing administrative privileges from a host

  • qconf -ah # gives host administrative privileges

  • qconf -dh # removes administrative privileges from host

Adding an execution host

  • Make the new host an administrative host

    qconf -ah

  • As root on this new host, run the following script from $SGE_ROOT

    install_execd

Removing an execution host

  • First, delete the queues associated with this host

    qconf -dq

  • Delete the host

    qconf -de

Adding and removing submit hosts

  • qconf -as # host is now a submit host

  • qconf -ds # jobs may not be submitted from host

Displaying current administrative/submit/execution hosts

  • qconf -sh # show current administrative hosts

  • qconf -ss # show current submit hosts

  • qconf -sel # show current execution host list

Administering queues

  • qconf -aq # adding a queue

  • qconf -dq # delete a queue

  • qconf -mq # modify a queue

  • qconf -Aq # adding a queue from file

  • qconf -mqattr # change single attributes of more than one queue