Apple Qmaster 3 - Manual (Page 80)

To start sharing
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Enter the following:
qmasterprefs -startSharing
To change the cluster storage path to an Xsan volume
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Enter the following:
qmasterprefs -cluster off storagepath /Volumes/XsanVol
To change the number of Compressor Processing services from 2 to 4
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Enter the following:
qmasterprefs -service "Compressor Processing" off sharing on instances 4
To turn off the Rendering service
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Enter the following:
qmasterprefs -service Rendering off
To turn on unmanaged services for Compressor Processing
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Enter the following:
qmasterprefs -service “Compressor Processing” on unmanaged on
To configure a service-only node
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Enter the following:
qmasterprefs -stopSharing -sharingType servicesOnly -startSharing
To create a QuickCluster
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Enter the following:
qmasterprefs -stopSharing -sharingType servicesAndQuickCluster -startSharing
Shell Commands for Submitting Compressor Jobs
You can run the Compressor application from the command line using the
Compressor
command, with a number of command-line options for submitting jobs.
In the command-line descriptions below, angle brackets < > indicate a mandatory
argument in a command, and brackets [ ] indicate an optional argument.
Synopsis
Below is a synopsis of the command for submitting a job to a cluster. The Compressor
command is located in /Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS/.
Compressor [-clustername ][-clusterid
] [-batchfilepath ] [-batchname
] [-priority ] [-jobpath ] [-settingpath ]
[-destinationpath ] [-info ] [-timeout ] [-help] [-show]
In this example, -jobpath , -settingpath , and -destinationpath can be repeated as
many times as the number of jobs you want to submit.
80 Chapter 7 Using the Command Line