Users and User Categories

There are four categories of users that each have access to their own set of Grid Engine system commands:

Managers – Managers have full capabilities to manipulate the Grid Engine system. By default, the superusers of all administration hosts have manager privileges.
Operators – Users who can perform the same commands as managers except that they cannot change the configuration. Operators are supposed to maintain operation.
Users – People who can submit jobs to the grid and run them if they have a valid login ID on at least one submit host and one execution host. Users have no cluster management or queue management capabilities.
Owners – Users who can suspend or resume and disable or enable the queues they own. Typically, users are owners of the queue instances that reside on their workstations. Queue owners can be managers, operators, or users. Users are commonly declared to be owners of the queue instances that reside on their desktop workstations. See How to Configure Owners Parameters With QMON for more information.

For information on which command capabilities are available to the different user categories, see Command Line Interface Ancillary Programs.

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Next Step – See Using and Administering for information on configuring, monitoring, and controlling your cluster.
Expert Advice – Video: Introduction to Grid Engine
Expert Advice – White Paper: Beginner's Guide to Sun Grid Engine
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Expert Advice – Podcast: Towards Cloud Computing with Sun Grid Engine 6.2

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