1. Qube 6.6
2. Command Line Reference 1

Command Line Reference 1

This page provides documentation for all command-line utilities.

• All commands, listed alphabetically
• Common artist commands
• Administration-level commands

All commands

• qbadmin:      Administrative command used to control qube
• qbarchive:    Output a job to a Qube archive file.
• qbblock:      Forces a job to quit, and suspend its execution on the farm
• qbbottom:     Move a job to the bottom of its priority level
• qbconfigfile: Parse a config file and display results
• qberr:        Display the stderr log of a job instance
• qbhash:       Generate and display the hashed string for a given password
• qbhist:       Display the history of a job
• qbhosts:      List Worker hosts

• qbinterrupt:  Force a job to quit, and requeue immediately in a pending state

• qbjoborder:   List jobs scheduled to run on a Worker host

• qbjobs:       List jobs

• qbkill:       Kill jobs
• qblock:       Lock available job slots on a Worker
• qblogin:      Windows passwords management
• qbmigrate:    Force a job to release its host and move to another
• qbmodify:     Modify jobs in the queue
• qbout:        Display the stdout log of a job instance
• qbpreempt:    Ask a job to release its worker job slots, let the current work (frame) finish
• qbremove:     Remove jobs from the queue
• qbrequeue:    Moves a job into the blocked state after a job has completed
• qbresume:     Resume a suspended job
• qbretire:     Ask a job instance to release its host, and then go prematurely to "complete" state
• qbretry:      Moves a job from a "done" (complete/failed/killed) status back to pending
• qbshove:      Force the Supervisor to re-evaluate a job immediately
• qbstats:      Display job statistics
• qbsub:        Submit a cmdline or cmdrange job
• qbsummary:    Display queue summary
• qbsuspend:    Suspend a process upon the host which the job is running on
• qbtop:        Move a job to the top of its priority level
• qbunblock:    Move a job from a blocked state into the pending state
• qbunlock:     Unlock available job slots on a Qube! Worker
• qbupdateresource: Inform the supervisor of license usage counts from external license managers

• qbusers:            Modifies the permissions for an individual user

Commonly-used artist commands

• qbblock:      Forces a job to quit, and suspend its execution on the farm

• qbbottom:     Move a job to the bottom of its priority level

• qberr:        Display the stderr log of a job instance
• qbhist:       Display the history of a job
• qbhosts:      List Worker hosts

• qbinterrupt:  Force a job to quit, and requeue immediately in a pending state

• qbjobs:       List jobs

• qbkill:       Kill jobs
• qblock:       Lock available job slots on a Worker
• qbmigrate:    Force a job to release its host and move to another
• qbmodify:     Modify jobs in the queue
• qbout:        Display the stdout log of a job instance
• qbremove:     Remove jobs from the queue
• qbrequeue:    Moves a job into the blocked state after a job has completed
• qbresume:     Resume a suspended job
• qbretire:     Ask a job instance to release its host, and then go prematurely to "complete" state
• qbretry:      Moves a job from a "done" (complete/failed/killed) status back to pending
• qbshove:      Force the Supervisor to re-evaluate a job immediately
• qbsub:        Submit a cmdline or cmdrange job
• qbsummary:    Display queue summary
• qbsuspend:    Suspend a process upon the host which the job is running on
• qbtop:        Move a job to the top of its priority level
• qbunblock:    Move a job from a blocked state into the pending state
• qbunlock:     Unlock available job slots on a Qube! Worker

Administration-level commands

• qbadmin:      Administrative command used to control qube

• qbconfigfile: Parse a config file and display results

• qbhash:       Generate and display the hashed string for a given password

• qbjoborder:   List jobs scheduled to run on a Worker host

• qblogin:      Windows passwords management

• qbupdateresource: Inform the supervisor of license usage counts from external license managers

• qbusers:            Modifies the permissions for an individual user