## Common Administrative Tasks for Grid Engine

Qconf is the command used for most administrative tasks. This HOWTO contains a selection of the most frequently used options. See qconf(1) for more details.

Adding and removing administrative privileges from a host

- qconf -ah # gives host administrative privileges

- qconf -dh # removes administrative privileges from host

Adding an execution host

- Make the new host an administrative host
  qconf -ah <hostname>

- As root on this new host, run the following script from $SGE_ROOT
  install_execd

Removing an execution host

- First, delete the queues associated with this host
  qconf -dq <queuenames...>

- Delete the host
  qconf -de <hostname>

- Finally, delete the configuration for the host
  qconf -dconf <hostname>

Adding and removing submit hosts

- qconf -as <hostname> # host is now a submit host

- qconf -ds <hostname> # jobs may not be submitted from host

Displaying current administrative/submit/execution hosts

- qconf -sh # show current administrative hosts

- qconf -ss # show current submit hosts

- qconf -sel # show current execution host list

Administering queues

- qconf -aq <queuename> # adding a queue

- qconf -dq <queuename> # delete a queue

- qconf -mq <queuename> # modify a queue

- qconf -Aq <filename> # adding a queue from file

- qconf -mattr queue ... # change single attributes of more than one queue