Thanks for all the help so far! I checked out the art.rb file in my
workflow(s) and it indeed is simply checking for OS version and for access
to the shared file system. I'm thinking that the ART is returning 0 because
of a problem accessing the shared file system, but I'm at a loss as to how
to troubleshoot that issue. I'm having a hard time figuring out HOW the
agent tries to access that shared file system.
Is that driven by the pcastagentd.plist preference file on the Controller
and/or the Agent?
Does anyone know the method it's trying to use to connect to that shared
file system? (ex via file sharing over AFP/SMB/FTP or some other method.)
Since Shared Filesystem and Server UUID are variables passed to the art.rb
file by PcP, any suggestions how I might be able to capture those variables
and manually test access to the shared file system from the agent? I think
I have them already (I know the share file system name and found the server
UUID in one of the pcatagent.plist files but I'm not sure how to use/test
them...
Again, thanks for all the help so far!
John Kinsella
Academic Technology Consultant
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul MN USA
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:38:05 -0800
From: Ernest Prabhakar <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Xgrid] xgrid novice question - Podcast Producer
To: Charles Parnot <email@hidden>
Cc: ?xgrid-users-lists-apple-com? <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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Hi John,
On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Charles Parnot wrote:
> the ART is the executable that runs on the agent to check if the
> agent is deemed "usable" for the task at hand (tutorial coming on
> MacResearch!). This means Podcast Producer is using Scoreboard to
> select which agents are worthy of using. It might be documented by
> Podcast producer (e.g. agent specs), or it might be something you
> need to figure out from the Podcast Producer developers.
Podcast Producer requires that all the Xgrid agents be Leopard
machines. The ARTs are in the Tools folder of the workflows. For
example the art for the Blog.pwf workflow can be found at:
/System/Library/PodcastProducer/Workflows/Blog.pwf/Contents/Resources/
Tools/art.rb
These ARTs check that the Xgrid agent machine is running Leopard and
has access to the Podcast Producer Shared File system.
Here is a link to the official PcP requirements:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306737
Hope this helps,
-- Ernie P.
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