Using PBS Professional on HP XC

a. You can accept the default value offered for the PBS_HOME directory, which is
/var/spool/PBS).
b. When prompted for the type of PBS installation, select: option 1 ("Server,
execution and commands").
c. If available, you may enter your license key(s) during the interactive installation.
Otherwise, you can execute the script named/usr/pbs/etc/pbs_setlicense
on the PBS server node after the installation is complete. (See the section titled
Replicating execution nodes)
d. When the following installation script prompt is displayed:
Would you like to start PBS now? n
Enter n (no). There are additional installation and configuration steps that you
must perform first.
2. Install one of the PBS execution nodes. Replication of this installation to the remaining execution
nodes is described later in the section titled Replicating execution nodes Specify the following
values:
a. When prompted for the type of PBS installation, select: option 2 ("Execution
only").
b. You are not prompted for license information during installation of an execution
node.
c. When are prompted for the name of the PBS server node; provide an internally-
resolvable name (such as n16, for the head node of a 16-node cluster), using a
node-naming prefix of n.
d. When the following installation script prompt is displayed:
Would you like to start PBS now?
Respond and proceed as follows:
• If you have finished the installation (no PBS clients to install), Enter n (no) and
invoke the software from the PBS server node manually, as described in its user
documentation. Proceed to the next section.
• If you are installing optional PBS client nodes, Enter n (no) and proceed to step 3.
3. Install any optional PBS clients, specifying the following values:
a. When prompted for the type of PBS installation, select: option 3 ("Commands
only").
b. For PBS client installations, you are not prompted for a license key.
c. When are prompted for the name of the PBS server node; provide an internally-
resolvable name (such as n16, for the head node of a 16-node cluster), using a
node-naming prefix of n.
d. For PBS client installations only, you are not prompted to start PBS at the end of the
installation. Invoke the software from the PBS server node manually, as described
in its user documentation.