Oracle Grid Engine 6.2 Overview Seminar

Course Description

This seminar introduces system administrators to Oracle Grid Engine 6.2. Students will learn to submit jobs in an already installed cluster and perform basic administration tasks, such as, monitoring and controlling jobs and queues, adding and displaying cluster resources, and configuring various scheduler entitlement policies.Learn To:Monitor and control jobs and queuesAdd and display cluster resourcesBuild an interactive Web applicationConfigure various scheduler entitlement policiesA Live Virtual Class (LVC) is exclusively for registered students; unregistered individuals may not view an LVC at any time. Registered students must view the class from the country listed in the registration form. Unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of LVC content may not be made.

Skills Gained

• Enable and use the Reporting and Accounting (ARCo) Console
• Use advanced scheduling features, such as reservations and backfilling
• Submit, monitor, and control jobs of various types
• Describe and use hosts, host groups, queues, queue instances, and slots
• Model, configure, and use cluster resources
• Configure and manage scheduling policies

Who Can Benefit

• System Administrator

Syllabus

Introduction to Oracle Grid Engine

• Oracle Grid Engine Overview and Benefits
• What is Oracle Grid Engine?
• Describing Core Concepts
• How Do you Access the OGE?
• Performing Basic Tasks
• Security
• Who Can Access the OGE?

Submitting and Monitoring Jobs

• Create, submit, and monitor jobs of different types: batch, array, interactive, and parallel
• Using Embedded Directives
• Configuring Job Dependencies
• Migration and Check pointing
• Customizing the Job Life-cycle
• Using Job Submission Verifiers

Using Hosts, Queues, and Slots

• Describe and display hosts and their groups
• Discriminate host roles
• Monitor queues, queue instances, and slots
• Describe the inter-relationship of these core concepts
• Monitor load average and queue status
• Control queues
• Use calendars
• Describe throttle controls

Configuring and Using Resources

• Distinguish resource types and share resources
• View and modify a complex configuration
• View and define resource attributes
• Distinguish ways of setting resource attribute values
• Distinguish ways of setting resource attribute values
• Model and configure dedicated licenses
• Create and use load sensors
• Where and How is Resources Used?

Managing Scheduling Policies

• Scheduling Activities and Process Overview
• Define and use scheduling policies
• Configure and use ticket or entitlement policies: Share tree (or fair-share) policy, Functional ticket policy, and Override ticket policy
• Configure and use Urgency policies: Wait time policy, Deadline policy, and Resource urgency policy
• Configure and use Custom policies
• Combine Policies

Using Advanced Scheduling Features

• How the Scheduler Works
• Schedule Work by Default and Recognize a Problem
• Use Backfilling
• Limit resource usage by:
• Setting maximum values for all users
• Configuring resource quota sets with rules
• Configuring an exception to the general resource limits
• Create and schedule with advance reservations

Using the OGE Accounting and Reporting Console

• Recording Grid Usage
• ARCo Overview
• Enable reporting for the Oracle Grid Engine
• Use the Web-based Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo)
• Create and modify your own report in the ARCo
• Customize Results
• Multi-Cluster Accounting