NQE Installation

Table of Contents

New Features

1. Installation Overview

2. Summary of Installation Steps

3. NQE Directory Structure

4. Customizing Preinstalled NQE

5. Upgrading Directly from NQE 3.2 to NQE 3.3

6. FLEXlm License Requirements

NQE Licensing Type

Where to Place Your NQE license.dat File

license.dat File Example

Ordering Your Permanent NQE FLEXlm License

7. Planning Your Configuration

Planning Server Type(s) and Clients

Planning Server Configuration

Planning a Cluster Configuration

Setting Port Numbers

8. Installing on Systems Other than UNICOS or UNICOS/mk

9. Installing on IRIX Systems Using the inst Utility

10. Installing on UNICOS/mk or UNICOS 10.0 Systems

Before You Install NQE

Installing NQE

11. Installing on UNICOS 9.0.x Systems

12. Upgrading from a Release Prior to NQE 3.1

Upgrading from NQE 3.0

Upgrading from NQE 2.0

Upgrading to NQE 3.3 If Running UNICOS 9.0 version of NQE, UNICOS 9.0 NQS/FTA (No NQX License)

Migrating NQS/FTA Requests

Restoring NQS/FTA Requests

13. NQE Version Maintenance Utility

14. Read This Before You Start NQE

Checkpointing Function on IRIX Systems

Checkpoint and Restart Operations on IRIX Systems

-Rf Option Supported on cqsub(1) Command

Possible Need to Modify the ilbrc File

Cray DynaWeb Server

Hewlett-Packard Patch Required before You Start NQE

Hewlett-Packard Systems Requirement for whatis File

Problem with Shutdown/restart of NQE Database

QSUB_WORKDIR Value for Requests Submitted through the NQE Database

NLB Differences for UNICOS/mk Systems

UNICOS Sites Using ftp Interface or USCP Interface

Command Paths Changed for UNICOS Systems

UNICOS/mk Changes to /etc/rc and /etc/config/rcoptions

NQS Customized Variables Now May Be Defined in the nqeinfo File

DCE Considerations

FLEXlm Documentation

15. Removing Previous NQX/NQS/FTA Versions

16. Using modules with NQE

Loading the modules Package

Using the NQE Modules File

Setting up Your User Environment

A. Preparing a Node to Run NQE

B. Configuring NQE Variables

Starting the NQE Configuration Utility

Editing the NQE Configuration Variables

NQE Configuration Display Menus

C. Mounting/Unmounting CD-ROMs

Mounting Local CD-ROMs

Unmounting (Ejecting) Local CD-ROMs

Exporting and Mounting CD-ROMs over NFS