Launch pilot 2
The pilot is a dependency-less Python application and relies on /usr/bin/env python
. The minimum pilot can be
called like:
./pilot.py -d -q <QUEUE_NAME>
The QUEUE_NAME
correspond to the ATLAS PandaQueue as defined in AGIS. This will launch the default generic
workflow with a default lifetime of 10 seconds.
The -d
argument changes the logger to produce debug output.
The current range of implemented pilot options is:
-a
: Pilot work directory (string; full path). This is the main work directory for the pilot. In this directory, the
work directory of the payload will be created (./PanDA_Pilot2_%d_%s" % (os.getpid(), str(int(time.time())))
).
-d
: Enable debug mode for logging messages. No value should be specified.
-w
: Desired workflow (string). Default is generic
, which currently means stage-in, payload execution and
stage-out will be performed. Other workflows to be defined. The workflow name should match an existing module in the
workflow
Pilot 2 directory.
-l
: Lifetime in seconds (integer). Default during Pilot 2 testing and implementation stage is currently 3600 s. It
will be increased at a later time.
-q
: PanDA queue name (string). E.g. AGLT2_TEST-condor.
-s
: PanDA site name (string). E.g. AGLT2_TEST. Note: the site name is only necessary for the dispatcher. The pilot
will send it to the dispatcher with the getJob command.
-j
: Job label (string). A prod/source label which currently has default value ptest. For production jobs, set
this to managed while user is the value for user jobs. Setting it to test will result in a test job.
--cacert
: CA certificate to use with HTTPS calls to server, commonly X509 proxy (string). Not needed on the grid.
--capath
: CA certificates path (string). Not needed on the grid.
--url
: PanDA server URL (string). Default is https://pandaserver.cern.ch.
-p
: PanDA server port (integer). Default is 25443.
--config
: Config file path (string). Path to pilot_config.cfg file.
--country_group
: Country group option for getjob request (string).
--working_group
: Working group option for getjob request (string).
--allow_other_country
: Is the resource allowed to be used outside the privileged group (boolean)?
--allow_same_user
: Multi-jobs will only come from same taskID and thus same user (boolean).
--pilot_user
: Pilot user (string). E.g. name of experiment.