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When logged in on the web interface for ECaccess, e.g. at https://boaccess.ecmwf.int/ or on your local gateway, you have the possibility to submit a new job from the left margin. The upper part of the submission page is shown in figure 1.
Figure 1: Job submission - Upper part
You can either type in your job script in the window provided, copy and paste it from another window or upload it from a local file. One important addition to make to your jobs is to add the "set -e" command or alternatively to manage the errors in your jobs and exit accordingly - see Job status, below, for more details.
Figure 2: Job submission - lower part
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- Keep job input/output for: ECaccess will create one new job for subsequent notifications of an event. E.g. if you have subscribed one job to the event ‘an00h000’ one new ECaccess job will automatically
be created and submitted every day when the ECMWF analysis for 00UTC is complete. The jobs used for the previous days will be kept in the ECaccess spool; they will be removed after the number of days specified in this field. - Man page for your job: The ECMWF operators have utilities to monitor your jobs subscribing to any events of the ECMWF operational activity. In this page, you can give some instructions to the operators
on what to do if the job fails. Operators could rerun your job (see next point) or possibly inform someone about the problem. If no instructions are given, our operators will not take any specific action on your jobs. - Retry frequency and Retry count: With these options, you can request your job to be rerun automatically (without the intervention of the ECMWF operators) a certain number of times if it fails.
- One script to one notification: If you have ticked several events for your job, by default you will have one job running for each individual event. If you want only one job to run when all the notifications t the events have been received, you can untick the box labelled ‘one script to one notification’. This option could be used if, for example, you want to extract in the same job some ENS meteogram products and raw ENS data. Your single job will seem to be linked to the two events and will be submitted when a notification to the two events has been sent. Be careful, though, to submit such a job at the correct moment, before the two events occur in the Operational suite, not in between. When you have given all the necessary information about your job, you can submit it. Your job will be taken by ECaccess and put in standby mode - status STDBY. You can monitor your jobs by selecting the link ‘Job submission’ under topic ‘Monitor’ in the left margin. The monitoring page is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Job monitoring
In this page you will see all your jobs submitted through ECaccess, both those with subscriptions to some events of the operational suite as well as other jobs. You will also see the jobs due for later schedule, as well as those which have already run for the previous notification of some events. Please note that the name of the job is also shown, when available. You can delete jobs from this page. See Changes in job or supression of jobs, below, for more details.
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