User manual APPLE BATCH MONITOR

[. . . ] 7)  Setting Batch Monitor Preferences (p. 8) 1 About the Batch Monitor The Batch Monitor contains the following items: Toolbar buttons User buttons Status buttons Cluster list Batch display  Batch display: Hierarchical display of batch, job, target, and segment information for current and completed batches. Also includes controls to pause, resume, cancel, and get status for any individual batch, job, target, or segment.  Toolbar: Use the Toolbar to adjust the display of items you are monitoring. [. . . ] Note: Completed tasks appear in the same view area. Inspector Window To get detailed information about any submitted batch, job, target, or segment, click its Show Info button to open the Inspector for that item. The Inspector includes two tabs: the Status tab and the Log tab. Status Tab The Status Tab displays the full text of status messages on any batch, job, target, or segment, such as Name, Submission Time, Owner, Time Elapsed, Time Remaining, Percent Complete, and Status. 4 Log Tab The Log Tab displays detailed text information on any batch, job, target, or segment. This information is useful for troubleshooting distributed processing issues, and it can be saved to a file and processed with XML tools and UNIX scripts. Log and Notification Labels The following table lists the service labels used in logs and email notifications. Processing Local Compressor service Distributed Compressor service Distributed Apple Qmaster service Notification servicecontroller:com. apple. stomp. transcoder servicecontroller:com. apple. stomp. transcoderx servicecontroller:com. apple. qmaster. executor Viewing or Changing the Status of a Submitted Batch You open the Batch Monitor to see the status of a submitted batch and all the jobs contained within it. Because it is a standalone application, you can view the Batch Monitor window whether or not Compressor or Apple Qmaster is open or whether or not you have submitted anything. Note: By default, Batch Monitor will launch automatically whenever you submit a batch using Apple Qmaster. You can enable the same automatic behavior for Compressor by selecting the "Auto launch Batch Monitor" checkbox in Compressor preferences. 5 To view the status of your batch: 1 To manually open the Batch Monitor, do one of the following:  Double-click the Batch Monitor icon in the Utilities folder.  Click the Batch Monitor button in either the Compressor window or the Apple Qmaster window. If you just submitted a batch, you should see it being processed. If you didn't recently submit a batch, the table is empty. 2 View the batch processing details and take any necessary action:  Click the disclosure triangle next to the batch, job, or target name to reveal information about the component parts of that item.  To pause a job, batch, or target, click the corresponding Pause toggle button. The Pause toggle button becomes the Resume toggle button.  To restart the processing for an item, click the Resume toggle button.  To cancel a job, batch, or target, click its Cancel button. Click the disclosure triangle next to an item to reveal more information. Show Info Pause Cancel Resume When the progress bar reaches 100 percent, your media file has been successfully transcoded and saved in the designated destination folder. Completed batch and job items are marked "Successful" and remain in the batch display. Unsuccessful batch and job items are marked "Failed" and remain in the batch display. 3 Click the Show Info button for any item in the batch display to view information about that item. In the inspector window that appears, click on either the Status tab or the Log tab to view the respective details. 4 Open the destination folder to view the newly transcoded output media file. 6 Batch Monitor and Distributed Processing If you have set up an Apple Qmaster distributed processing system to process Compressor or Apple Qmaster jobs, then Batch Monitor will offer some additional features. For example, both administrators and client users can use the Batch Monitor to monitor the processing of submitted jobs. Administrators can stop or cancel any batch, as long as they have the administrator password for the cluster that is processing the batch, and users can stop or cancel their own batches. The Batch Monitor and Passwords There are different kinds of passwords that may affect how you use the Batch Monitor. [. . . ] To control how often Batch Monitor information is updated: m Use the "Update every" field to enter the number of seconds between updates from processing computers. You can set how many seconds should pass before the Batch Monitor updates with information sent by the processing computer. To control whether Batch Monitor can browse clusters from a wide area network, do one of the following: m Select Browse Wide Area Network to have Compressor use computers beyond the local subnet, and enter the DNS domain in the DNS Domain field. m Deselect Browse Wide Area Network to have Compressor limit itself to computers in the local subnet. Note: Any changes you make to the Batch Monitor Preferences settings take effect only when you click OK. If you make changes but decide not to use them, click Cancel. [. . . ]