Figures Grid computing in InfoSphere Information Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 NAS grid environment example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 SAN grid environment with a single front end node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 SAN grid environment with separate NAS server for NFS mounts . . . . . . 13 Dedicated standby node configuration involving a SAN-configured grid environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1-6 Parameters in the Job Properties window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 1-7 Job sequence with sequencer.sh script in the Execute Command Activity stage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1-8 Passing the three values from the sequencer.sh script output . . . . . . . . . 20 1-9 Job sequence with a Execute Command Activity stage for the sequencer.sh script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1-10 Execute Command Activity stage for the sequencer.sh script with parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1-11 Values passed from the sequencer.sh script output to a job in the job sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1-12 $APT_GRID_SEQFILE_HOST variable in the Sequential File Properties tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 1-13 Invocation of the Dynamic_Grid.sh script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 1-14 Dynamic_Grid.sh execution flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 1-15 Cluster configuration, part 1 of 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 1-16 Cluster configuration, part 2 of 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 1-17 Cluster configuration, part 3 of 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 1-18 Cluster configuration, part 4 of 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 1-19 Cluster configuration, part 5 of 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 1-20 Cluster configuration, part 6 of 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 1-21 Cluster configuration, part 7 of 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 1-22 Grid configuration, part 1 of 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 1-23 Grid configuration, part 2 of 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 1-24 Grid configuration, part 3 of 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 1-25 Grid configuration, part 4 of 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 1-26 Grid configuration, part 5 of 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 1-27 Grid configuration, part 6 of 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 1-28 Steps to set up your InfoSphere Information Server grid environment . . 43 2-1 Grid environment configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 2-2 General approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 2-3 Steps in installing and configuring the grid environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 2-4 rowGenSleeper with sequential file, part 1 of 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 Figures vii