[HTCondor-users] Configuring a default scheduler address

[Javier Barbero GÃmez <jbarbero@xxxxxx>]

Hi, this is related to my previous thread about setting up File System 
Remote authentication, as it is part of my goal of using a single 
scheduler for the whole cluster, but I decided to ask separately as it 
is a separate question.

I want to achieve the following behaviour: all jobs submitted through 
"condor_submit" from any machine in my cluster should be sent to the 
same scheduler in a set machine. Similarly, when using "condor_q" this 
scheduler should be queried. Usually this is achieved using the "-name" 
option in both cases and specifying the address there, but I want to 
make it transparent to users so they do not have to type it out every 
time or remember to include this in their scripts.

My first idea was using an alias so that "condor_submit" maps to 
"condor_submit -name <address>", but this is not viable since this does 
not affect scripts by default. Then I wondered if there is some 
configuration variable for using a remote scheduler instead of the local 
one by default, but looking at the code for "condor_submit", I don't see 
anything like that (granted, I do not have any previous experience with 
the HTCondor source and I may be missing something).

Is this functionality already implemented? If not, would the maintainers 
be willing to accept a patch implementing something like this?

I guess that my best bet for now is substituting the "condor_submit" 
executable manually by a script that adds the option, but it would be 
overwritten by any updates and it is not ideal.

Javier Barbero