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Table Of Contents
- Distributed Processing Setup
- Contents
- Introduction to DistributedProcessing
- Getting Started Quickly
- Preparing a Network forDistributed Processing
- The Interfaces
- Creating and AdministeringClusters
- An Overview of Configuring a Cluster
- Configuring Service Nodes and Cluster Controllers
- Creating Clusters with AppleQadministrator
- About QuickClusters
- Advanced Settings in the AppleQmaster Preferences Pane
- Modifying and Deleting Clusters With AppleQadministrator
- Monitoring Cluster Activity
- Accessing Activity Logs
- Setting Cluster Preferences
- Setting Passwords and Scratch Storage
- Recovery and Failure Notification Features
- Command-Line Usage
- Installing AppleQmaster from the Command Line
- Shell Commands for Configuring Service Nodes and Cluster Controllers
- Shell Commands for Submitting Compressor Jobs
- Shell Commands for Submitting AppleQmaster Jobs
- Shell Commands for Monitoring Batches
- Using Scripts to Run AppleQmaster, Compressor, and BatchMonitor
- Troubleshooting
- Index
Appendix B Troubleshooting 81
Restart Apple Qmaster and Xsan computers in the following order:
1 Turn off the cluster controller by clicking Stop Sharing in the Apple Qmaster pane in
System Preferences.
2 Restart the Apple Qmaster cluster controller computer.
3 Wait for the Xsan volume to mount on the desktop.
4 Click Start Sharing in the Apple Qmaster pane in System Preferences to restart
the controller.
Xsan Compatibility
Xsan 1.3 is not compatible with Compressor’s Apple Qmaster distributed processing
system when Xsan media drives are used for cluster (scratch) storage. To use Xsan with
Apple Qmaster 2.3, update to Xsan 1.4.
To download and install Xsan 1.4, go to:
 http://www.apple.com/support/xsan
Compressor Command-Line Usage Requires Login
While it is possible to use the command line to run an Apple Qmaster distributed
processing network, each Compressor service node (each computer providing
Compressor distributed processing services) must be logged in (with a Mac OS X
user name and password) for full functionality.