Setup of Network Services Files

There are two files that you must edit on each machine or node in the network cluster in order to set up the network services for distributed batch processing in a horizontally scaled system. These files enable the necessary communication between programs on the different machines so that the GEN database information on jobs and queues is available throughout the network cluster.

The two files are the services file and the inetd.conf file, both located in the etc directory.

If you do not set up the network services correctly, you will not be able to connect to remote machines. You may receive the following error:

"TCP error - cannot connect to remote host"

If you receive this error, make sure you have set up the correct paths for the network services programs in inetd.conf.