Sun N1 Engine Advanced Administration

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code.

ES-337

length.

3 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$2,100 :: $1,785 GSA GOV.

The N1 Grid Engine Advanced Administration course provides students with the necessary skills to install, configure, use, and troubleshoot N1 Grid Engine (N1GE). This course describes installation and advanced administration of this product.

Students learn how to use the command-line interface to submit interactive and batch jobs to the grid. In addition, students perform basic configuration tasks, such as displaying, adding, modifying, and deleting queue, host, and global configurations and complexes.

The course also describes resource management and approaches for troubleshooting failures in the grid. Finally, students learn about the special scheduling features available in N1GE including the share tree, functional, deadline, and overrides scheduling policies.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

who can benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are those responsible for installing, configuring, using, and troubleshooting N1GE.

prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to perform routine system administration tasks on the Solaris(TM) Operating System (Solaris OS)

skills gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

	Perform installation tasks and run basic user commands, including: describing the features and architecture of the N1GE software; describing distributed resource management (DRM); performing a Network File System (NFS) installation of N1GE; and submitting batch and interactive jobs to the grid.
	Configure N1GE, including performing basic queue, host, and cluster configuration; administering complexes; and integrating applications in the grid
	Perform advanced tasks, including administering and troubleshooting N1GE and configuring scheduling policies

course content details

	Module 1 - Introducing the Grid Software

	Define grid computing and DRM
	Describe the types of grids
	Define the architecture of N1GE
	Describe jobs, queues, user types, and host types
	Schedule jobs in the grid
	Describe the flow of information in N1GE
	Define High Performance Computing (HPC) environments
	Describe the Grid Engine project

	Module 2 - Installing the Grid Software

	Describe the various types of N1GE installations
	Describe the various spooling types
	Describe the default scheduler profiles
	Perform an NFS installation of N1GE
	Describe the contents of the primary N1GE directories

	Module 3 - Submitting Jobs to the Grid

	Describe N1GE commands and job types
	Submit batch jobs using the qsub command
	Submit interactive jobs using the qsh, qrsh, qtcsh, and qlogin commands
	Obtain status information for submitted jobs
	Administer submitted jobs

	Module 4 - Modifying Configuration Parameters

	Describe the types of N1GE parameters you can configure
	Configure the N1GE cluster parameters
	Configure the N1GE host parameters
	Configure the N1GE queue parameters
	Configure the N1GE scheduler
	Configure N1GE users

	Module 5 - Configuring Resource Management and Load Parameters

	Describe items that affect resource management: job requirements; resources; global, queue, host, and user-defined resource attributes; and inheritance rules
	Administer the system complex list, including global, host, user-defined, and queue-related resource attributes
	Configure the default load parameters and define custom load sensors

	Module 6 - Controlling the Event Chain and Integrating Applications

	Define the N1GE event chain and application integration
	Describe the execution methods
	Integrate custom applications into N1GE
	Integrate HPC environments

	Module 7 - Administering and Troubleshooting N1GE

	Perform routine administration of N1GE queues
	Examine N1GE log files to troubleshoot failures
	Use command debugging to resolve failed job submissions
	Obtain and apply patches for N1GE
	Back up the grid engine system configuration
	Diagnose problems in N1GE

	Module 8 - Resource Allocation and Scheduling Policies

	Describe resource allocation and scheduling
	Describe and configure N1GE scheduling parameters
	Describe and configure the share tree scheduling policy
	Describe and configure the functional scheduling policy
	Describe and configure the override scheduling policy

	Module 9 - Usage Accounting and Reporting

	Understand the various methods of gathering accounting and reporting statistics
	Install and configure the N1GE reporting database module
	Install and use the N1GE web-based Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo)