man appmgr (8): Tool to manage applications and platforms

SYNOPSIS

appmgr list [--no-versions] appmgr add NAME DESC [--hr=no | --hr=fine | --hr=coarse] [--beta] [--weight=NUM] [--target_nresults=NUM] appmgr delete NAME [--version=VER] [--platform=NAME] [--plan_class=NAME] appmgr update NAME [--hr=no | --hr=fine | --hr=coarse] [--beta | --no-beta] [--weight=NUM] [--target_nresults=NUM] [--user_friendly_name=DESC] [--min_version=VER] [--deprecated | --no-deprecated] appmgr update_appver NAME [--version=VER] [--platform=NAME] [--plan_class=NAME] [--deprecated | --no-deprecated] [--min_core_version=VER] [--max_core_version=VER] appmgr list_platform [--short] appmgr add_platform NAME DESC appmgr delete_platform NAME [--force] appmgr update_platform NAME [--user_friendly_name=DESC] [--deprecated | --no-deprecated] appmgr add_standard_platforms appmgr {-h | --help}

DESCRIPTION

appmgr is a tool to manage platforms, applications and application versions from the command-line.

Note: application refers to data in the app table; application version refers to data in the app_version table and in the file system.

COMMANDS

The generic syntax is:

appmgr COMMAND [command arguments]

Note that command-specific options must came after the command, never before. Here is a short list of the available commands. The following sections describe the commands in detail.

list: List the installed applications and application versions.
add: Add a new application.
delete: Delete an application or application version.
update: Update the properties of an application.
update_appver: Update the properties of an application version.
list_platform: List the platforms known to the project.
add_platform: Add a new platform.
delete_platform: Delete a platform.
update_platform: Update the properties of a platform.
add_standard_platforms: Add all standard platforms to the project.

LIST

List the installed applications and application versions, together with any non-default properties (beta, deprecated, min. core version etc.). If the --no-versions option is specified, then the list of application versions is omitted and just the application definitions are listed.

ADD

Add a new application. NAME is the short name of the application as used in the file system. DESC is the user-friendly name that is displayed to users.

The following options can also be specified:

--hr=no, --hr=fine, --hr=coarse: Set the homogeneous redundancy class. no means all hosts are equivalent, fine means fine-grained classification of 80 classes, coarse means coarse classification of 4 classes.
--beta: Indicate that this is application is in beta testing. Users can select if they are willing to test applications marked as beta in their preferences; see the wiki section "Beta-test applications" about how to enable this on the web interface.
--weight=NUM: Specify the weight of this application if the feeder is run with the -allapps option. NUM is a floating-point value, the default is 1.
--target_nresults=NUM: Set the number of replicas when an otherwise unreplicated work unit is sent to a host that is not trusted. See the wiki section "Adaptive replication" for details.

DELETE

Delete applications or application versions. This command deletes both the database records and the files under the download and apps directories, so use with care.

The following options can be specified:

--version=VER: Select only application versions with the version number VER. The version number must be specified as major.minor.
--platform=NAME: Select only application versions for the platform NAME.
--plan_class=NAME: Select only application versions having the plan class NAME.

If more than one of the options --version, --platform and --plan_class are specified, then only application versions matching all the criteria are deleted. If none of these options are specified, then the application is also deleted. Note that if one or more of these options are specified then the application is not deleted even if there are no more application versions remaining.

UPDATE

Update the properties of an application. The following properties can be modified:

--hr=no, --hr=fine, --hr=coarse

Set the homogeneous redundancy class. no means all hosts are equivalent, fine means fine-grained classification of 80 classes, coarse means coarse classification of 4 classes.

: Warning
Do not change the homogeneous redundancy class while there are jobs in progress!

--beta

Indicate that this is application is in beta testing. Users can select if they are willing to test applications marked as beta in their preferences; see the wiki about how to enable this on the web interface.

--no-beta

Indicate that the application is no more in beta testing.

--weight=NUM

Specify the weight of this application if the feeder is run with the -allapps option. NUM is a floating-point value, the default is 1.

--target_nresults=NUM

Set the number of replicas when an otherwise unreplicated work unit is sent to a host that is not trusted. See the wiki article on "Adaptive replication" for details.

--user_friendly_name=DESC

Update the user-friendly description of the application.

--min_version=VER

Set the min. version of the application that the scheduler accepts. This is checked only if the client uses the anonymous platform. The version number must be specified as major.minor.

--deprecated

Indicate that the application is deprecated. The feeder will then ignore this application when looking for new work.

--no-deprecated

Remove the deprecation mark from the application.

UPDATE_APPVER

Update the properties of an application version. The version(s) to operate on can be specified with the --version, --platform and --plan_class options, as described at the DELETE command.

The following properties can be modified:

--min_core_version=VER: Set the min. version of the core client that is required to run this application version. The version number must be specified as major.minor. The 3rd component (the patch level) of the core client version is ignored.
--max_core_version=VER: Set the max. version of the core client that is allowed to run this application. Note that the scheduler ignores this setting currently.
--deprecated: Indicate that the application version is deprecated. The feeder will then ignore this version when looking for new work.
--no-deprecated: Remove the deprecation mark from the application version.

LIST_PLATFORM

List the platforms known to the project. If the --short option is specified, then only the short names of the platforms are listed.

ADD_PLATFORM

Add a new platform. NAME is the short name of the platform that is used in the scheduler requests. DESC is the user-friendly name that is displayed to users.

DELETE_PLATFORM

Delete a platform. If the --force option is specified, the command deletes all application versions for this platform. Otherwise, if there are such application versions, the command will fail.

UPDATE_PLATFORM

Update the properties of a platform. The following properties can be modified:

--user_friendly_name=DESC: Update the user-friendly description of the platform.
--deprecated: Indicate that the platform is deprecated. The feeder will then ignore this platform when looking for new work.
--no-deprecated: Remove the deprecation mark from the platform.

ADD_STANDARD_PLATFORMS

Add all the standard platform definitions to the database that do not exist yet.