The DDS User Manual v3.4

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. The Dynamic Deployment System

1.2. Basic concepts

1.3. Features

2. Requirements

2.1. Server/UI

2.2. Workers

3. Download

3.1. Download location

3.2. DDS Version Number Scheme

4. Installation

4.1. Step #1: Get the source

4.1.1. from DDS git repository

4.1.2. from DDS source tarball

4.2. Step #2: Configure the source

4.3. Step #3: Build and install

4.4. Step #4: DDS Environment

5. Configuration

6. Quick Start

7. Topology

7.1. Topology file

7.2. Topology file example

7.3. Topology XML tag reference

8. How to Start

8.1. Environment

8.2. Server

8.3. Deploy Agents

8.3.1. Deploy-Agents using: SSH plug-in

8.4. Check availability of Agents

8.5. Activate Topology

9. How to Test

9.1. First Section

10. Tutorials

10.1. Tutorial 1

10.1.1. Usage

10.1.2. Result

10.2. Tutorial 2

10.2.1. Usage

10.2.2. Result

11. Command-line interface

dds-session — start/stop DDS commander and manage DDS sessions

dds-commander — manages DDS facility

dds-user-defaults — get and set global DDS options

dds-submit — submits and activates DDS agents

dds-info — can be used to query different kinds of information from DDS commander server

dds-test — a DDS self-test utility

dds-topology — topology related commands

dds-agent-cmd — send commands to agent

12. RMS plug-ins

12.1. For Developers

12.1.1. Basic concept

12.1.2. Requirements

12.1.3. API

12.2. SSH

12.2.1. Resource definition

12.2.2. Example usage

12.3. Localhost

12.3.1. Introduction

12.3.2. Example usage

12.4. SLURM

12.4.1. Sandbox directory

12.4.2. User configuration

12.4.3. Usage example