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Setting Up and Managing Cluster Queues
7.11 Starting Local Batch Queues
7.11.1 Startup Command Procedure
Start the local batch execution queue in each node’s startup command procedure
SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM. If you use a common startup command procedure, add
commands similar to the following to your procedure:
$ SUBMIT/PRIORITY=255/NOIDENT/NOLOG/QUEUE=node_BATCH LAYERED_PRODUCT.COM
$ START/QUEUE node_BATCH
$ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXECUTIVE SYS$BATCH node_BATCH
Submitting the startup command procedure LAYERED_PRODUCT.COM as a
high-priority batch job before the queue starts ensures that the job is executed
immediately, regardless of the job limit on the queue. If the queue is started
before the command procedure was submitted, the queue might reach its job limit
by scheduling user batch jobs, and the startup job would have to wait.
7.12 Using a Common Command Procedure
Once you have created queues, you must start them to begin processing batch
and print jobs. In addition, you must make sure the queues are started each time
the system reboots, by enabling autostart for autostart queues or by entering
START/QUEUE commands for nonautostart queues. To do so, create a command
procedure containing the necessary commands.
7.12.1 Command Procedure
You can create a common command procedure named, for example,
QSTARTUP.COM, and store it on a shared disk. With this method, each node
can share the same copy of the common QSTARTUP.COM procedure. Each node
invokes the common QSTARTUP.COM procedure from the common version of
SYSTARTUP. You can also include the commands to start queues in the common
SYSTARTUP file instead of in a separate QSTARTUP.COM file.
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