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Downloading and Using the Installation Wizard

17.2 Downloading and Using the Installation Wizard

Launching the Condor®Installer

First, you must download the installer from Condor^®’s website ( http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/). After filling in your information you should be able to select the target platform to install Condor^®. After downloading and launching the installer on Windows, you should be presented with the first screen of the installation wizard.

Creating or Joining a Condor®Pool

After accepting the End-User License Agreement, you have the choice of creating a new Condor^® Pool or joining an existing one. If this is the first computer on the LAN that Condor^® is being installed on, select Create a new Condor^® Pool and select a display name for the Condor^® Pool. Otherwise, select Join an existing Condor^® Pool and enter in the hostname (machine name) of the first machine you installed Condor^® on.

Execution and Submit Behavior for Jobs

Now the Condor^® Wizard will allow you to select whether the current computer should be permitted to submit jobs, run jobs or both. When selecting whether the current computer will run jobs, you can choose to only run jobs if no user is actively using the computer. This may be a good default setting if the computer has only one core or CPU since desktop interactivity will most likely be degraded when Condor^® jobs are running. If you choose this setting, you must decide what to do with jobs that are suspended when a user starts using a computer that was previously idle. It is recommended that you select Restart the job on a different machine if in general users occupy computers for long periods of time.

Setting Condor®Host Permission

You can leave the Accounting Domains and email settings to blank for most cases. As SVSdoes not use Java to execute jobs on Condor^®, the Java Settings screen is not important (although you may want to ensure correct settings if you plan to use Condor^® for your own Java jobs).

The Host Permission Settings screen that follows is extremely important. With settings that are too restrictive, Condor^® will appear to be completely dysfunctional. For the most part, if your LAN is behind a proper firewall, there should be no security concerns as your Condor^® Pool will not be accessible from any external network or firewall. That is why we recommend setting the Hosts with Write access field to * to ease the setup and troubleshooting process. If your network is entirely exposed to the Internet and each host has public IP addresses, you may want to consider limiting these permissions to stricter settings. The other defaults on this screen should be correct. See the Condor^® web site, specifically, the “Administrators Manual” for in-depth documentation.

Finish Up

The screen that follows provides you with the choice to do a custom installation which allows you to specify a target install directory. We recommend clicking on Install which will use the default install directory of C:/condor. After clicking on Install Condor^® should be properly installed on that machine and the Condor^® windows services should be started. Within a couple minutes, you should be able to run the condor_status utility from a command prompt that has changed directories to C:/condor/bin.