Hey Cam and Sheryl,
Thanks for the information you provided me. Things are making a
little more sense now to me. I know I will have more questions in the near
future.
On 5/7/12 11:26 PM, "Cameron Goodale" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Mike and Sheryl,
>
> Mike was asking me for some similar advice and I plain ran outta talent on
> this topic. From what I can tell Mike would like to run his python scripts
> on Resource Manager without the need for setting up Workflow or PGE.
>
> At the time I hadn't really thought through all the configuration files
> needed, but having stewed on it I thought I should reply. Now my current
> SnowDS implementation is to have the Workflow Task reference a CAS-PGE
> (which contains the execution block for my python program i want to run).
> Then the Workflow is merely configured to farm the jobs out to the
> Resource Manager.
>
> Here is a list of questions that I have started to wonder about with Mike's
> help, any answers would be appreciated:
>
> 1. Can Resource Manager + Batchstubs be used without any additional OODT
> components?
>
> 2. Is PGE required to run/wrap non-Java programs so they can run within
> Resource Manager?
>
> Closing comments to Mike:
>
> If you are planning to use OODT for data management, it
> is initially very tempting to only setup and configure the minimal set of
> components because you will feel productive and it feels like progress is
> being made. Trust me I know since I was in your shoes about 6 months ago
> when trying to get some image processing IDL code to run and I bably needed
> to see progress (notice I didn't use the works "make progress"). Because I
> wanted to use (what I thought was) the "easier" solution I ended up
> hardcoding paths to resources my python code needed in the code instead of
> passing the parameters into the code in the first place. This worked
> reasonably well as long as everything stayed the same....but then it didn't
> so I had to re-visit my "easier" setup and fix it.
> Recently I have been working to undo my mistakes and python has been
> very forgiving, but the best part was that all the strange and mystic
> Workflow setups and PGEConfig.xml files actually started to make a whole
> lot more sense. I am now able to configure and stand up a complete
> workflow config, then jump into PGEConfig and get the input parameters to
> my python code. This means if the input files i need to process changes I
> don't need to change my python code, instead I can merely pass in a
> different set of parameters into the workflow and they will persist to my
> wrapped python.
> In short I know that combing through all the xml config is tough,
> especially when things are not working as quickly as you would like. I
> understand how defeated and frustrating it can be to have the component
> fail and just feel lost, not knowing what is causing the problem. I know
> the documentation isn't perfect and sometimes it is missing altogether, but
> the people that are on this list will bend over backwards to help you
> understand (some will even share their config files with line-by-line
> comments included at no extra charge ;)
>
> Thank you Sheryl for being awesome and helpful (you always are). Mike keep
> the questions coming and I will be sure to add in my $0.02 when I am able
> to.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Cameron
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Sheryl John <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Yup, you can run your python scripts, java programs etc. from CAS-PGE which
>> is used with the Workflow Manager. Check out this cas-pge guide [1] and the
>> other wiki pages related to workflow.
>>
>> You can use Resource Manager to run tasks sent from the Workflow Manager.
>> I've recently started testing this but there are others on the list who can
>> guide you more on the Resource Manager.
>>
>> HTH!
>>
>> Sheryl
>>
>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/OODT/cas-pge-learn-by-example.html
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Iwunze, Michael C (GSFC-4700)[NOAA-JPSS] <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have two questions, I am able to run the Resource Manager with no
>>> issues. I have some python scripts and possibly some other programs I
>>> would like to run using the Resource Manager. From what I know so far I
>>> believe the cas-pge component needs to be used in conjunction with the
>>> Resource Manager and is used as a wrapper program for running my scripts.
>>> Can someone give me more information on how this can be accomplished or
>> are
>>> there any examples to view?
>>>
>>> I would also like to be able to utilize the Job Scheduler, Monitor and
>>> Job queue classes that are part of the Resource Manager. I can't find any
>>> examples of how they are used anywhere. And if examples do exist can
>>> someone point me in the right direction or give me more information on
>> this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Sheryl
>>
