----- Roland Schulz <
roland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my understand what we decided for PBS and the RM model definition:
>
> All possible PBS attributes (both standard + resource) are in a
> configuration file, which is stored with the proxy. It is
> in internal configuration file which we don't expect the user to change. By
> not defining it in Java code, but in a configuration file, we make it easier
> to adapt it to other RMs. This configuration file is distributed with PTP
> and uploaded to the server when the RM is uploaded.
>
> The configuration file contains all the information which is contained in
> the attribute definition according to the proxy protocol: Id, Type, Name
> (the name displayed - not necessarily equal to the xml attribute name),
> Description, Default. Additional it should include mapping between the names
> used in the XML and those we want to display. This include the XML attribute
> name and for data-type enumerated the list of XML values and the displayed
> value.
>
> In the Model-Def phase the content of this phase is sent to the client.
> While this communication wouldn't be needed for PBS (the configuration file
> has to be available on the client to be uploaded to the proxy) it allows the
> java proxy to be adapted easily to RMs which provide a mechanism to discover
> this list of attributes. Since this communication is only happening at
> start-up it doesn't hurt the performance.
>
> We will add to the RM wizard base class (and thus to all RM wizards) a test
> of the proxy connection and this test connection will include the Model-Def
> phase. This way the RM wizard knows about all possible attributes. We also
> add a page to the RM wizard where the user can select which attributes are
> displayed both in the job view and in the run-configuration dialog. The user
> can do this selection both by individually selecting attributes and by
> selecting a predefined template (Abe, Cray, ...).
>
> Because it doesn't make sense to communicate attributes the user does't want
> to display in the job view, the client sends the selection of attributes to
> the proxy using the filter command. For this the filter command is extended
> to allow also filtering of attributes.
>
> Did I understand everything correctly and is this the way we want to go?
>
> Roland
>
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