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CONDOR_GATHER_INFO(1) HTCondor Manual CONDOR_GATHER_INFO(1)

NAME

condor_gather_info - HTCondor Manual

Gather information about an HTCondor installation and a queued job

SYNOPSIS

condor_gather_info [--jobid ClusterId.ProcId] [--scratch /path/to/directory]

DESCRIPTION

condor_gather_info is a Linux-only tool that will collect and output information about the machine it is run upon, about the HTCondor installation local to the machine, and optionally about a specified HTCondor job. The information gathered by this tool is most often used as a debugging aid for the developers of HTCondor.

Without the --jobid option, information about the local machine and its HTCondor installation is gathered and placed into the file called condor-profile.txt, in the current working directory. The information gathered is under the category of Identity.

With the --jobid option, additional information is gathered about the job given in the command line argument and identified by its ClusterId <href="../classad-attributes/job-classad-attributes.html#ClusterId"> and ProcId <href="../classad-attributes/job-classad-attributes.html#ProcId"> ClassAd attributes. The information includes both categories, Identity and Job information. As the quantity of information can be extensive, this information is placed into a compressed tar file. The file is placed into the current working directory, and it is named using the format

cgi-<username>-jid<ClusterId>.<ProcId>-<year>-<month>-<day>-<hour>_<minute>_<second>-<TZ>.tar.gz


All values within <> are substituted with current values. The building of this potentially large tar file can require a fair amount of temporary space. If the --scratch option is specified, it identifies a directory in which to build the tar file. If the --scratch option is not specified, then the directory will be /tmp/cgi-<PID>, where the process ID is that of the condor_gather_info executable.

The information gathered by this tool:

1.
Identity
  • User name who generated the report
  • Script location and machine name
  • Date of report creation
  • uname -a
  • Contents of /etc/issue
  • Contents of /etc/redhat-release
  • Contents of /etc/debian_version
  • Contents of $(LOG)/MasterLog
  • Contents of $(LOG)/ShadowLog
  • Contents of $(LOG)/SchedLog
  • Output of ps -auxww -forest
  • Output of df -h
  • Output of iptables -L
  • Output of ls 'condor_config_val LOG'
  • Output of ldd 'condor_config_val SBIN'/condor_schedd
  • Contents of /etc/hosts
  • Contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf
  • Output of ulimit -a
  • Output of uptime
  • Output of free
  • Network interface configuration (ifconfig)
  • HTCondor version
  • Location of HTCondor configuration files
  • HTCondor configuration variables
  • All variables and values
  • Definition locations for each configuration variable


2.
Job Information
  • Output of condor_q jobid
  • Output of condor_q -l jobid
  • Output of condor_q -analyze jobid
  • Job event log, if it exists
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Only events pertaining to the job ID

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If condor_gather_info has the proper permissions, it runs condor_fetchlog on the machine where the job most recently ran, and includes the contents of the logs from the condor_master, condor_startd, and condor_starter.


OPTIONS

Data mine information about this HTCondor job from the local HTCondor installation and condor_schedd.
A path to temporary space needed when building the output tar file. Defaults to /tmp/cgi-<PID>, where <PID> is replaced by the process ID of condor_gather_info.



FILES

  • condor-profile.txt The Identity portion of the information gathered when condor_gather_info is run without arguments.
  • cgi-<username>-jid<cluster>.<proc>-<year>-<month>-<day>-<hour>_<minute>_<second>-<TZ>.tar.gz The output file which contains all of the information produced by this tool.

EXIT STATUS

condor_gather_info will exit with a status value of 0 (zero) upon success, and it will exit with the value 1 (one) upon failure.

Author

HTCondor Team

Copyright

1990-2024, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

January 3, 2026