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4 Creating and
Administering Clusters
Once your network is set up and you have installed
the necessary components, you are ready to create
distributed processing clusters.
As the administrator of your distributed processing network, you can set a number
of cluster options and security controls. You may also want to know about failure
notification and recovery features.
This chapter covers the following:
 An Overview of Configuring a Cluster (p. 42)
 Configuring Service Nodes and Cluster Controllers (p. 42)
 Creating Clusters with Apple Qadministrator (p. 50)
 About QuickClusters (p. 53)
 Advanced Settings in the Apple Qmaster Preferences Pane (p. 54)
 Modifying and Deleting Clusters With Apple Qadministrator (p. 58)
 Monitoring Cluster Activity (p. 59)
 Setting Cluster Preferences (p. 60)
 Setting Passwords and Scratch Storage (p. 61)
 Recovery and Failure Notification Features (p. 65)
If you have questions about any concepts and terms used here, refer to the preface,
“Introduction to Distributed Processing” on page 5.