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Index
Index
A
activity logs 66
administrator email address 60
administrator mode, Batch Monitor 40
administrator password
Apple Qadministrator 35
cluster administrator 51, 61
Apple Qadministrator
creating clusters 50–52
deleting clusters 58, 59
failure notification 66
modifying clusters 58–59
monitoring cluster activity 59
notification emails to 66
opening 36
overview 35–36
passwords 35
QuickClusters 58
setting cluster preferences 60
setting passwords 61–62
Apple Qmaster
alternatives to 68
failure notification 66
installing 28
interfaces 31–40
introduction to 5–11
opening 38–39
preferences. See Apple Qmaster pane in System
Preferences
recovery features 65–66
setting scratch location 62, 64
specifying Shake script locations 30
submitting batches for processing 7
turning cluster controller on/off 48
turning off temporarily 58
turning processing services on/off 43–48
using shell commands 71–73
Apple Qmaster networks 21–30
basic rules for 21
described 21
desktop processing environment 27–30
examples of 22, 26
expanded 26
expanding capacity of 25–26
simple 22
subnet 7
Apple Qmaster pane 68
Apple Qmaster pane in System Preferences 17, 33–
34
advanced settings 54–57
opening 17, 34
Services pane 48
settings overview 45
Apple websites 12
B
batches
See also batch jobs
command line options 69
creating 18, 38
described 6
distribution of 9–10
dividing into segments 10
dividing into tasks 10
failure of 66
history 60
interruption of 65
listing in History table 60
log files 66
monitoring 73
monitoring with shell commands 73–74
passwords 51
submitting for processing 7, 19, 37–39
submitting with shell commands 69–71
tracking activity of 39–40
batch jobs
See also batches
described 6
for distributed rendering 30
log files 66
Maya 38
number of 60
submitting with Apple Qmaster 38
submitting with shell commands 71–73
Batch Monitor
administrator mode 40