Designating the Master Batch Server

Use this procedure to designate which machine or node in the network cluster is the master batch server. You can designate only one machine in the cluster as the master batch server.

The master batch server is the node in your network cluster that manages the jobs that are submitted throughout the network cluster. That is, all job requests go through the master batch server and, in the case of multi-step jobs, the master batch server keeps track of when one step is completed and the other step needs to be done. In addition, the master batch server is the default batch server for batch programs. That is, it will process any job steps that are for batch programs that have not been assigned to a specific node in the network cluster.

To designate which node is the master batch server, you use the jscluster utility.

To designate the master batch server

  1. Log into a Lawson Interface Desktop (LID) session on any node in the cluster.
  2. At the command line, specify this information:

    jscluster -l nodename

    where nodename is the node or machine that you want to be the master batch server. The nodename is from the Name field of the Cluster Node Definition utility (nodedef).