Apple Compressor 2 - Manual (Page 246)

246 Appendix B Command-Line Usage
Command options
This table provides information about each of the enabling and disabling service-node
and cluster-controlling services on a computer.
Shell Commands for Submitting Compressor Jobs
You can run the Compressor application from the command line using the Compressor
command, with a number of command-line options for submitting jobs.
In the command-line descriptions below, angle brackets < > indicate a mandatory
argument in a command and brackets [ ] indicate an optional argument.
Synopsis
Below is a synopsis of the command for submitting a job to a cluster. The Compressor
command is located in /Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS.
Compressor [-clustername <name>] [-clusterid <user name:password@IP address:port
number>][-command <command type> -options <XML command> [-wd <working
directory>] [-timeout <seconds>] [-show] [-batchname <name>] [-help]
Once the job is submitted successfully, this command displays the batch ID (identifier)
and job ID (identifier) in the shell, and you can monitor the progess of a batch in the
Batch Monitor.
Command options
This table provides information about each of the command options for submitting jobs.
Preference command option Description
[-cluster] <on | off> Turns cluster-controlling services on or off.
[timeout min] [servername name] [quickcluster on | off ]
[unmanagedservices on | off ] [unmanagedmulticapturethreshold
sec] [networkinterface allinterfaces | <bsd name>]
[-service Rendering] <on | off> Turns UNIX Rendering services on or off.
[timeout min] [instances n] [autorestart on | off ] [unmanaged on |
off ]
[-list] Lists the current qmasterprefs settings.
[-help] Displays information about supported options for qmasterprefs.
[-restart] Restarts Apple Qmaster services.
[-service name options] Sets service options.
Preference command option Description