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Apple Qadministrator User Manual
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Copyright Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple Infinite Loop Your rights to the software are governed by the Cupertino, CA accompanying software license agreement. The owner or authorized user of val...
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Contents Welcome to Apple Qadministrator5Preface About Apple Qadministrator5 About the Apple Qadministrator Documentation6 Additional Resources6 Using Apple Qadministrator9Chapter The Apple Qmaster Di...
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Welcome to Apple Qadministrator You can use This Computer Plus and Quick Clusters for most distributed processing needs. Apple Qadministrator allows you to manually create and manage specialized clust...
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About the Apple Qadministrator Documentation The Apple Qmaster distributed processing system comes with various documents that help you get started as well as provide detailed information about each o...
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Apple Service and Support Websites For software updates and answers to the most frequently asked questions for all Apple products, go to the general Apple Support webpage. You’ll also have access to p...
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Using Apple Qadministrator As the administrator of your distributed processing network, you can set number of cluster options and security controls. You may also want to know about failure notificatio...
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The Apple Qmaster Distributed Processing System Computers that submit batches to Apple Qmaster are called clients. An Apple Qmaster job is a processing task in the form of a project shared by Final Cu...
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Clusters When a client sends batches to the Apple Qmaster system, all the processing and subsequent moving of any output files is performed by a group of Apple Qmaster–configured computers called a cl...
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Stage 2: Assigning Service Nodes Stage 1: Creating New Cluster Use the following steps to create a cluster with Apple Qadministrator. To create new cluster In Compressor, choose Apple Qmaster > Adm...
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Stage 2: Assigning Service Nodes Use the following steps to assign service nodes to cluster. To add service node to cluster If the Qmaster Service Browser is not already displayed, click the disclosur...
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When you have finished adding service nodes, click Apply. Your cluster is now ready to process batches. Note: Although Apple Qadministrator currently allows you to create a cluster with unmanaged serv...
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To remove service node from the cluster: Select the computer and drag it back to the Qmaster Service Browser at the bottom of the Apple Qadministrator window. To remove nodes from a cluster, drag them...
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Click the Info (I) button near the of the Cluster list. In the window that appears, click the CPU, Memory, Volume Info, and I/O Activity tabs to see variety of details about the selected node. Accessi...
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About the Apple Qadministrator Preferences Tab You can use the Apple Qadministrator Preferences tab to configure a number of Apple Qadministrator settings. The Apple Qadministrator Preferences tab con...
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Configuring the Wide Area Network Preferences Window Apple Qadministrator wide area network preferences include the IP addresses for remote computers. To enter IP addresses or ranges for remote comput...
