Consumer properties

Property

Explanation

Name

A unique name of a department or project in your structure.

Administrators

User accounts or with administrative privileges for this consumer and all consumers beneath it. A consumer administrator can see everything in their branch of the tree, modify any property, assign resources, modify user accounts, and control hosts.

Users

List of user accounts that have access to this consumer without administrative privileges. Users can only view their own properties.

OS user account

The operating system user account under which workload runs. All workload for the consumer runs under the same account, no matter which user submitted workload units.

If the consumer runs workload units on a Windows host, include the domain name as shown:

domain_name\user_name

If the consumer runs workload units on a Linux host, EGO can automatically strip the domain name from the user name. For example, if you configure the account as mydomain\user2, it is interpreted as mydomain\user2 on Windows but as user2 on Linux.

Every new Windows execution user account needs to have the password configured with egosh ego execpasswd. The egoadmin account is already configured.

Any activity started through egosh uses the same execution account as configured for the leaf consumer it runs on. The file ConsumerTrees.xml contains execution user account information for each registered consumer.

Resource groups

A collection of hosts. You can create resource groups based on similar qualities or by machine names. Only those resource groups assigned to this consumer by its parent consumer are available for assignment.

Reclaim

Reclaim applies to consumers that are borrowing resources. If a client is running workload units on a borrowed resource, you can impose a delay (grace period) so that these units can run uninterrupted before the resource gets returned (reclaimed). Alternately, you can choose to immediately interrupt workload units running on a borrowed resource when it is reclaimed by setting the grace period to 1.

When a grace period is left blank or set to 0, it defaults to 120 seconds.