Re: [Condor-users] SCHEDD and HA

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/22/2011 12:18 PM, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> If I understand the Condor manual correctly, high availability for
> submit machines requires that there is only one submission point. If I
> have 4 submit machines, any of which can be submitting jobs via
> different users, is it possible to set up HA such that if any one(or
> more than one) of these SCHEDDs go down one of the other SCHEDDs can
> pick up the jobs?
>
> The config macro settings do not seem to lend themselves to support this
> and therefore I am wondering if anyone can clarify whether HA for
> SCHEDDs can support multiple submission points. I believe it would be a
> limitation for us to have only one submit machine, because we are often
> submitting a thousand or so jobs and the heap or memory could be a
> limiting factor.
>
> thanks for the help,
> mike

You can definitely have multiple highly available submit points in a 
pool, each with their own HA configurations. HA for the Schedd is 
Active-Passive, or more specifically 1 active to n passive. If you have 
4 physical machines setup as submit points, you can run 4 HA Schedds 
across them. Each machine running one active Schedd and have 3 passive 
in waiting, one for each of the other machines.

Best,


matt