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The information within this publication is given in good faith and considered to be true, but ECMWF accepts no liability for error, omission and for loss or damage arising from its use. Anchor_Toc139277167_Toc139277167 Anchor_Toc156121486_Toc156121486 Anchor_Toc156122892_Toc156122892 Anchor_Toc156726592_Toc156726592 Anchor_Toc158178585_Toc158178585 Anchor_Toc158451000_Toc158451000 Anchor_Toc158518129_Toc158518129 Anchor_Toc158525509_Toc158525509 Anchor_Toc184121681_Toc184121681 Anchor_Toc189558576_Toc189558576 Anchor_Toc256508088_Toc256508088 Anchor_Toc320104154_Toc320104154Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1 Introduction to ECFLOW
2 Running ECFLOW
2.1 Overview
2.2 Status of a task
2.3 Status of a family or suite
2.4 Using ECFLOW
2.5 Suite Definitions
2.6 Writing ECFLOW scripts
2.7 Time Critical tasks
2.8 Running tasks on remote systems
2.9 Moving suites between ECFLOW servers
2.10 Debugging definition files
2.11 Debugging ECFLOW scripts
3 The ECFLOW Pre-processor
3.1 Locating '.ecf' file
3.2 ECFLOW Manual pages
3.3 Include files
3.4 Comments
3.5 Stopping pre-processing
3.6 ECF_MICRO
3.7 How a job file is created from an ecFlow file
4 ECFLOW variables
4.1 Variable inheritance
4.2 ECFLOW Server environment variables
4.3 Environment variables for the ECFLOW client
4.4 ECFLOW suite definition variables
4.5 Generated Variables
4.6 Variables and Substitution
5 Text based suite definition format
5.1 Defining a suite, using the text definition file format
5.2 Dependencies
5.3 Attributes
6 Defining a suite using the python API
6.2 Defining a suite, using the Python API
6.3 Dependencies
6.4 Attributes
6.5 Control Structures and Looping
6.6 Adding externs automatically
6.7 Checking the suite definition
6.8 Checking Job Generation
6.9 Handling Dummy Tasks
6.10 Simulation of a running suite
6.11 Error Handling
7 The ecFlow Server
7.1 Starting the ecFlow Server
7.2 Stopping ecFlow servers
7.3 Checking if an ECFLOW server is running on a host
7.4 Start-up files for ECFLOW server
7.5 Security
7.6 Security: ECFLOW White list file
7.7 Handling Output
8 ECFLOW CLI (Command Level Interface)
8.1 get
8.2 CLI scripting in batch
8.3 Configuring ECFLOW
8.4 Compiler and OS requirements
9 Flags used by ECFLOW
10 ecflowview
10.1 Main window menus
10.2 ecflowview "buttons"
10.3 Menus
10.4 The Collector
10.5 Searching
10.6 Dependencies
10.7 Editing scripts
10.8 Zombies
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