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Setting up the job script directory

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By default, Viewpoint uploads job scripts to a user-specific folder under $VIEWPOINT_HOME/uploads, such as $VIEWPOINT_HOME/uploads/tsmith. You can overwrite the location of the job script directory by setting the jobs.scripts.upload.dir property in ViewpointConfig.groovy. It specifies where Viewpoint should upload the file.

Moab must have access to the upload folder to run the scripts. This does not require any special configuration when Moab and Viewpoint run on the same machine. When they run on separate machines, however, you must use the job.scripts.remote.dir property in ViewpointConfig.groovy to override the default path to the Viewpoint job scripts. It specifies where Viewpoint should tell MWS and Moab to find the file.

You can set the jobs.scripts.upload.dir and jobs.scripts.remote.dir properties independently of each other.

The following four procedures demonstrate the correct way to set up your job script directory based on your system setup.

To set up the default job script directory on one server

The following procedure demonstrates how to set up the default job script directory when Moab and Viewpoint run on the same machine.

  1. Verify that the tomcat user has write access and the moab user has read access to the default upload directory ($VIEWPOINT_HOME/uploads).

To set up a custom job script directory on one server

The following procedure demonstrates how to set up a custom job script directory when Moab and Viewpoint run on the same machine.

  1. In ViewpointConfig.groovy, set jobs.scripts.upload.dir to the custom directory. In this example, it is /opt/viewpoint/jobScripts.

    jobs.scripts.upload.dir = '/opt/viewpoint/jobScripts'
  2. Verify that the tomcat user has write access to the directory and that the moab user has read access to it.

To set up the default directory when Moab and Viewpoint run on different machines

The following procedure demonstrates how to set up the default job script directory when Moab and Viewpoint run on different machines.

  1. Open ViewpointConfig.groovy and set the jobs.scripts.remote.dir property to the protocol you prefer to use to share the $VIEWPOINT_HOME/uploads directory with the Moab server. For example, you could use NFS to mount the directory at /media/viewpoint-shared-scripts.
    jobs.scripts.remote.dir = '/media/viewpoint-shared-scripts'

To set up a custom directory when Moab and Viewpoint run on different machines

The following procedure demonstrates how to set up a custom job script directory when Moab and Viewpoint run on different machines.

  1. In ViewpointConfig.groovy, set the jobs.scripts.upload.dir property to the location to which Viewpoint mounts the custom job script directory. In this example, the job script directory is called /common-scripts, and the Viewpoint server mounts the file share at /opt/viewpoint/common-scripts. 
    jobs.scripts.upload.dir = '/opt/viewpoint/common-scripts'
  2. Set the job.scripts.remote.dir property to the location to which Moab mounts the file share. In this example, it is at /media/job-scripts.
    jobs.scripts.upload.dir = '/opt/viewpoint/common-scripts'
    jobs.scripts.remote.dir = '/media/job-scripts'

    When user tsmith submits a job with a script called res1.sh, Viewpoint stores it at /opt/viewpoint/common-scripts/tsmith/res1.sh. Viewpoint transmits the job to MWS, setting the commandFile parameter to /media/job-scripts/tsmith/res1.sh. Viewpoint and Moab use the same actual directory, but they reference it with their own system-specific paths.

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