Re: [Condor-users] Job submission - generic user GUI available?

[John Wheez <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I did a WWW based GUI for Condor a while back. It is geared towards
3D animation and 2D compositing applications though. Here is how i 
approached some of the following...

> If used with a single schedd then performance could suffer (see posts passim)
> It's not easy to switch to be a different user when actually
> submitting a job (though doable but nasty) so no easy per user job
> division
>  
For this i had to use sudo command to allow the web server to execute 
condor_submit as the intended user. The WWW page gahered the required 
username and used a cookie to store it...etc.

Also the condor_submit command allows you to specify which schedd to 
send the request to..so i used this to send the submission request to 
the users machine.

i suppose i could have used some method to hace theWWW server actually 
launch condor_submit from the users loccal machine...but i never messed 
around with any of that..

One problem i had was if a linux machine had to send a job to a windows 
sched, it would fail...so try putting you www server on a windows based 
machine if your users are using windows....your file srver can still be 
linux or whatever though.

JW