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Hostfile is an XML file which has OmniRpcConfig at the top level. OmniRpcConfig's element is Host.
In the host element, you should describe the hosts which you use.
You should specify the host name with the name attribute.
You can set the user name when the user names are different on the client host and remote host. If the value of the user attribute is omitted, the user name on the client host is used.
At this writing, you can specify the architecture (arch) and operating system (os), but these values are not used.
In the host, you can specify the attributes below.
In OmniRPC, the omrpc-agent is invoked in initialization, and the agent element is a option for the agent. It has no elements. but you can specify the following attributes.
You should specify the method of the agent invocation. "gram" is an alternative name for globus. If the agent element is omitted, the default invoker is rsh.
You should specify whether or not you use multiplex communication. Set this value on if you want to use the relay of communication by the agent. If you don't specify the value of the mxio attribute, the default value is off.
On this host, if OmniRpc software is not installed in the default install path (/usr/local/omrpc), you should specify the path attribute as the install path.
Specify the jobscheduler of the omrpc-agent which executes the remote executable. There are some attributes. If this element is omitted, the default type is fork and maxjob is 1.
You specify the type of jobscheduer. "rr" is an alternative name for "round_robin". "pbs" stands for portable batch system and sge stands for sun grid engine.
You specify the number of maximum jobs which can be executed on the remote host. If the value is omitted, maxjob is set to 1.
Specifys the path to the registry on the remote host. If this element is omitted, the registry path is the home directory on the remote host.
You should specify the path to registry.
Specifys the directory on which worker program in remote side can store the file.
You should specify the path that workers store temporary files .
You can describe information about host.
Specifys the timeout seconds of connection between client program and OmniRPC agent. Default seconds is 15 .
You can specify the timeout second when the client program invokes OmniRPC agent in remote nodes. Sometimes the client program fails because of long phease of authentication. If you meet that case, please increase that value.
If you want OmniRPC client program to show debug message, please write Debug element in hostfile.