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ARCTEST(1) User Commands ARCTEST(1)

arctest - ARC Test Suite

arctest [OPTION...]

The arctest command is used for testing clusters as resources.

computing element hostname or a complete endpoint URL
registry service URL with optional specification of protocol
require the specified endpoint type for job submission.
Allowed values are: arcrest and internal.
require information query using the specified information endpoint type.
Special value 'NONE' will disable all resource information queries and the following brokering. Allowed values are: ldap.nordugrid, ldap.glue2, arcrest and internal.

skip the service with the given URL during service discovery
select broker method (list available brokers with --listplugins flag)

the IDs of the submitted jobs will be appended to this file
do not perform any delegation for submitted jobs
perform X.509 delegation for submitted jobs
perform token delegation for submitted jobs
request at most this number of job instances submitted in single submit request
request at least this number of job instances submitted in single submit request
allow TLS connection which failed verification
the file storing information about active jobs (default /build/reproducible-path/nordugrid-arc-7.0.0/debian/.debhelper/generated/_source/home/.arc/jobs.dat)
do not perform any authentication for opened connections
perform X.509 authentication for opened connections
perform token authentication for opened connections
force using CA certificates configuration provided by OpenSSL
force using CA certificates configuration for Grid services (typically IGTF)

submit test job given by the number
test job runtime specified by the number
submit jobs as dry run (no submission to batch system)
do not submit - dump job description in the language accepted by the target
prints info about installed user- and CA-certificates
list the available plugins

Show help options
configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf)
timeout in seconds (default 20)
FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG
print version information

The arctest command is mainly used for basic testing of job submission to ARC CE using various pre-defined test jobs. It supports all target selection options available for arcsub and use the same brockering logic.

It can also print basic information about user's certificate. The command is complementary to arcinfo and arcproxy -I

The test jobs available in this version of arctest are:

Test job 1: This test-job calculates prime-numbers for a number of minutes given by -r (default 5) and outputs the list to stderr. The source-code for the prime-number program, the Makefile and the executable are downloaded to the cluster from HTTP and FTP servers and the program is compiled before running. In this way, the test job constitutes a fairly comprehensive test of the basic setup of a grid cluster.

Test job 2: attempts to list all environment variables at the remote site

Test job 3: copies a remote file from an HTTP server into a local file

~/.arc/client.conf
Some options can be given default values by specifying them in the ARC client configuration file. By using the --conffile option a different configuration file can be used than the default.

~/.arc/jobs.dat
This a local database of the user's active jobs. When a job is successfully submitted it is added to database and when it is removed from the remote CE it is removed from this list. This database is used as the list of all active jobs when the user specifies the --all option to the various NorduGrid ARC user interface commands. By using the --joblist option a different file can be used than the default.

arctest -J 1 -C <computing element>

will submit test job number 1 to the specified CE.

ARC software is developed by the NorduGrid Collaboration (http://www.nordugrid.org), please consult the AUTHORS file distributed with ARC. Please report bugs and feature requests to http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

arccat(1), arcclean(1), arccp(1), arcget(1), arcinfo(1), arckill(1), arcls(1), arcmkdir(1), arcproxy(1), arcrenew(1), arcresume(1), arcrm(1), arcstat(1), arcsub(1), arcsync(1)

April 2025 arctest version 7.0.0