Apple Compressor (4.0) User Manual

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Chapter 9

Use Apple Qadministrator to create and modify clusters

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The cluster name you create will also appear in the cluster pop-up menus in Compressor, Share
Monitor, Apple Qmaster, Final Cut Pro, and Motion.

Click the Add button...

... then rename the

Untitled Cluster.

3

In the Controller pop-up menu, choose a cluster controller from those available on the network.

Use this pop-up

menu to choose

a cluster controller.

Note: If a password was created for the cluster controller in the Apple Qmaster Sharing window,
a password authentication window appears.

4

If you want to create cluster passwords, click the Security tab and select and enter the passwords.

Administrator password: If you create this password, administrators will need to know it to
modify this cluster and to view this cluster’s batches in Share Monitor.

User password: If you create this password, users will need to know it to submit batches to this
cluster and to view those batches in Share Monitor.

Add a service node to a cluster

1

If the Qmaster Service Browser isn’t already displayed in the Apple Qadministrator window, click

the disclosure triangle to display it.

Click this disclosure triangle

to see available nodes.

2

Add service nodes to the new cluster by dragging them from the Qmaster Service Browser list at

the bottom of the window to the cluster’s service nodes list.

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