13. Migration Notes

13.1. Migrating From Pegasus 4.9.X to Pegasus 5.0

The Pegasus 5.0 Release is a major release of Pegasus with the adoption of YAML for representation of all major catalogs. In this release, the following are now represented in YAML:

  1. Abstract Workflow

  2. Replica Catalog

  3. Transformation Catalog

  4. Site Catalog

  5. Kickstart Provenance Records

In addition, 5.0 has a new Python API developed from the grounds up that in addition to generating the abstract workflow and all the catalogs, allows you to plan, submit, monitor, analyze, and generate statistics of your workflow.

To use this new API refer to the Moving From DAX3 to Pegasus.api.

If you are an existing user, please follow these instructions to upgrade.

  1. Python3 Support

    • All Pegasus tools are Python 3 compliant.

    • 5.0 release will require Python 3 on workflow submit node

    • Python PIP packages for workflow composition and monitoring

  2. Change in default data configuration

    In Pegasus 5.0, the default data configuration has been changed to condorio . Until 4.9.x releases, the default configuration was sharedfs.

    Note

    Your current workflows would not plan successfully, if you do not have the property pegasus.data.configuration set. Set the property pegasus.data.configuration to sharedfs if you dont have it explicitly set in your properties file.

  3. Output Replica Catalog

    In Pegasus 5.0, your outputs are now registered into a sqlite database in your root workflow submit directory. This is different from the input replica catalog that you specify using the pegasus.catalog.prefix . See the chapter on Replica Catalog for more details.

  4. Database upgrade

    In Pegasus 5.0, the database schema has been revised to remove inconsistent/unused indexes, and extended to enable tracking of the maxrss and avg_cpu properties.

To migrate your 4.9.x databases to 5.0 refer to the section below on how to use pegasus-db-admin.

13.1.1. Database Upgrades From Pegasus 4.9.x to Pegasus current version

In Pegasus all databases are managed by a single tool: pegasus-db-admin. Databases will be automatically updated when pegasus-plan is invoked, but WORKFLOW databases from past runs may not be updated accordingly. The pegasus-db-admin tool provides an option to automatically update all databases from completed workflows in the MASTER database. To enable this option, run the following command:

$ pegasus-db-admin update -a
Your database has been updated.
Your database is compatible with Pegasus version: 5.0.0

Verifying and updating workflow databases:
15/15

Summary:
Verified/Updated: 15/15
Failed: 0/15
Unable to connect: 0/15
Unable to update (active workflows): 0/15

Log files:
20200721T113456-dbadmin.out (Succeeded operations)
20200721T113456-dbadmin.err (Failed operations)

This option generates a log file for succeeded operations, and a log file for failed operations. Each file contains the list of URLs of the succeeded/failed databases.

Note that, if no URL is provided, the tool will create/use a SQLite database in the user’s home directory: ${HOME}/.pegasus/workflow.db.

For complete description of pegasus-db-admin, see the documentation for pegasus-db-admin.

13.2. Moving From DAX3 to Pegasus.api

13.2.1. Overview

In Pegasus 5.0, a new YAML based workflow format has been introduced to replace the older DAX3 XML format (Pegasus is still capable of running DAX3 based workflows however, it is encouraged that the new workflow generators be used to create these YAML based workflows). Additionally, the Site Catalog, Transformation Catalog, and Replica Catalog formats have all been updated to a YAML based format. Using the respective modules in the Pegasus.api package, these catalogs can be generated programatically. Furthermore, the pegasus.properties file used for configuration can be generated with this API. If you have existing catalogs that need to be converted to the newer format, usage of Pegasus catalog conversion tools are covered in the subsequent sections.

Attention

The Pegasus.api package requires Python3.5+.

13.2.2. Properties

The pegasus.properies file format remains the same in this release however you can now programatically generate this file with Properties. The following illustrates how this can be done:

rops = Properties()
props["globus.maxtime"] = 900
props["globus.maxwalltime"] = 1000
props["dagman.retry"] = 4

props.write()

13.2.3. Catalogs

13.2.3.1. Site Catalog

Prior to the 5.0 release, the Site Catalog has been written in XML. Although the format has changed from XML to YAML, the overall structure of this catalog remains unchanged.

To convert an existing Site Catalog from XML to YAML use pegasus-sc-converter. For example, to convert a Site Catalog file, sites.xml, to YAML, use the following command:

pegasus-sc-converter -i sites.xml -o sites.yml

The following illustrates how Pegasus.api.site_catalog.SiteCatalog can be used to generate a new Site Catalog programatically based on an existing XML based Site Catalog.

from Pegasus.api import *

# create a SiteCatalog object
sc = SiteCatalog()

# create a "local" site
local = Site("local", arch=Arch.X86_64, os_type=OS.LINUX)

# create and add a shared scratch and local storage directories to the site "local"
local_shared_scratch_dir = Directory(Directory.SHARED_SCRATCH, path="/tmp/workflows/scratch")\
                            .add_file_servers(FileServer("file:///tmp/workflows/scratch", Operation.ALL))

local_local_storage_dir = Directory(Directory.LOCAL_STORAGE, path="/tmp/workflows/outputs")\
                            .add_file_servers(FileServer("file:///tmp/workflows/outputs", Operation.ALL))

local.add_directories(local_shared_scratch_dir, local_local_storage_dir)

# create a "condorpool" site
condorpool = Site("condorpool", arch=Arch.X86_64, os_type=OS.LINUX)

# create and add job managers to the site "condorpool"
condorpool.add_grids(
    Grid(Grid.GT5, contact="smarty.isi.edu/jobmanager-pbs", scheduler_type=Scheduler.PBS, job_type=SupportedJobs.AUXILLARY),
    Grid(Grid.GT5, contact="smarty.isi.edu/jobmanager-pbs", scheduler_type=Scheduler.PBS, job_type=SupportedJobs.COMPUTE)
)

# create and add a shared scratch directory to the site "condorpool"
condorpool_shared_scratch_dir = Directory(Directory.SHARED_SCRATCH, path="/lustre")\
                                    .add_file_servers(FileServer("gsiftp://smarty.isi.edu/lustre", Operation.ALL))
condorpool.add_directories(condorpool_shared_scratch_dir)

# create a "staging_site" site
staging_site = Site("staging_site", arch=Arch.X86_64, os_type=OS.LINUX)

# create and add a shared scratch directory to the site "staging_site"
staging_site_shared_scratch_dir = Directory(Directory.SHARED_SCRATCH, path="/data")\
                                    .add_file_servers(
                                        FileServer("scp://obelix.isi.edu/data", Operation.PUT),
                                        FileServer("http://obelix.isi.edu/data", Operation.GET)
                                    )
staging_site.add_directories(staging_site_shared_scratch_dir)

# add all the sites to the site catalog object
sc.add_sites(
    local,
    condorpool,
    staging_site
)

# write the site catalog to the default path "./sites.yml"
sc.write()

13.2.3.2. Replica Catalog

The Replica Catalog has been moved from a text based file format to YAML. To convert an existing Replica Catalog from the text based File format to YAML use pegasus-rc-converter. For example, to convert a Replica Catalog file, rc.txt, to YAML, use the following command:

pegasus-rc-converter -I File -O YAML -i rc.txt -o replicas.yml

The following illustrates how Pegasus.api.replica_catalog.ReplicaCatalog can be used to generate a new Replica Catalog programatically based on an existing text based Replica Catalog.

from Pegasus.api import *

rc = ReplicaCatalog()\
        .add_replica("local", "f.a", "/Volumes/data/inputs/f.a")\
        .add_replica("local", "f.b", "/Volumes/data/inputs/f.b")\
        .write()

# the Replica Catalog will be written to the default path "./replicas.yml"

13.2.3.3. Transformation Catalog

The Transformation Catalog has been moved from a text based format to YAML. To convert an existing Transformation Catalog from the text based file format to YAML, use pegasus-tc-converter. For example, to convert a Transformation Catalog file, tc.txt, to YAML, use the following command:

pegasus-tc-converter -i tc.txt -I Text -O YAML -o transformations.yml

The following illustrates how Pegasus.api.transformation_catalog.TransformationCatalog can be used to generate a new Transformation Catalog programatically based on an existing text based Transformation Catalog.

from Pegasus.api import *

# create the TransformationCatalog object
tc = TransformationCatalog()

# create and add the centos-pegasus container
centos_cont = Container(
                "centos-pegasus",
                Container.DOCKER,
                "docker:///rynge/montage:latest",
                mounts=["/Volumes/Workf/lfs1:/shared-data/:ro"]
            ).add_profiles(Namespace.ENV, JAVA_HOME="/opt/java/1.6")

tc.add_containers(centos_cont)

# create and add the transformation
keg = Transformation(
        "keg",
        namespace="example",
        version="1.0",
        site="isi",
        pfn="/path/to/keg",
        is_stageable=False,
        container=centos_cont
    ).add_profiles(Namespace.ENV, APP_HOME="/tmp/myscratch", JAVA_HOME="/opt/java/1.6")

tc.add_transformations(keg)

# write the transformation catalog to the default file path "./transformations.yml"
tc.write()

13.2.4. Workflow (formerly DAX)

Pegasus 5.0 brings major API changes to our most used DAX3 python API. Moving forward, users should use the Pegasus.api package described in the Python API reference. The following section shows both the DAX3 and Pegasus.api representations of the classic diamond workflow.

Note

Method signatures in the Java DAX API remain exactly the same as it was prior to the 5.0 release with the exception that it can now generate YAML. It is recommended to use the Python API moving forward as it supports more features such as catalog generation and access to pegasus command line tools.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import logging

from pathlib import Path

from Pegasus.api import *

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

# --- Replicas -----------------------------------------------------------------
with open("f.a", "w") as f:
    f.write("This is sample input to KEG")

fa = File("f.a").add_metadata(creator="ryan")
rc = ReplicaCatalog().add_replica("local", fa, Path(".").resolve() / "f.a")

# --- Transformations ----------------------------------------------------------
preprocess = Transformation(
                "preprocess",
                site="condorpool",
                pfn="/usr/bin/pegasus-keg",
                is_stageable=False,
                arch=Arch.X86_64,
                os_type=OS.LINUX
            )

findrange = Transformation(
                "findrange",
                site="condorpool",
                pfn="/usr/bin/pegasus-keg",
                is_stageable=False,
                arch=Arch.X86_64,
                os_type=OS.LINUX
            )

analyze = Transformation(
                "analyze",
                site="condorpool",
                pfn="/usr/bin/pegasus-keg",
                is_stageable=False,
                arch=Arch.X86_64,
                os_type=OS.LINUX
            )

tc = TransformationCatalog().add_transformations(preprocess, findrange, analyze)

# --- Workflow -----------------------------------------------------------------
'''
                        [f.b1] - (findrange) - [f.c1]
                        /                             \
[f.a] - (preprocess)                               (analyze) - [f.d]
                        \                             /
                        [f.b2] - (findrange) - [f.c2]

'''
wf = Workflow("diamond")

fb1 = File("f.b1")
fb2 = File("f.b2")
job_preprocess = Job(preprocess)\
                        .add_args("-a", "preprocess", "-T", "3", "-i", fa, "-o", fb1, fb2)\
                        .add_inputs(fa)\
                        .add_outputs(fb1, fb2)

fc1 = File("f.c1")
job_findrange_1 = Job(findrange)\
                        .add_args("-a", "findrange", "-T", "3", "-i", fb1, "-o", fc1)\
                        .add_inputs(fb1)\
                        .add_outputs(fc1)

fc2 = File("f.c2")
job_findrange_2 = Job(findrange)\
                        .add_args("-a", "findrange", "-T", "3", "-i", fb2, "-o", fc2)\
                        .add_inputs(fb2)\
                        .add_outputs(fc2)

fd = File("f.d")
job_analyze = Job(analyze)\
                .add_args("-a", "analyze", "-T", "3", "-i", fc1, fc2, "-o", fd)\
                .add_inputs(fc1, fc2)\
                .add_outputs(fd)

wf.add_jobs(job_preprocess, job_findrange_1, job_findrange_2, job_analyze)
wf.add_replica_catalog(rc)
wf.add_transformation_catalog(tc)

try:
    wf.plan(submit=True)\
            .wait()\
            .analyze()\
            .statistics()
except PegasusClientError as e:
    print(e)

To begin creating a workflow, you will first need to import the classes made available in Pegasus.api. Simply replace DAX3 with api.

from Pegasus.api import *

The workflow object has been changed from ADAG to Workflow. By default, job dependencies will be inferred based on job input and output files.

wf = Workflow("diamond")

In DAX3, you were able to add files directly to the ADAG object. With the newer 5.0 api, any file that has a physical file name (i.e. any initial input file to the workflow) should be added to the ReplicaCatalog. In this example, we add the replica catalog to the workflow after all input files have been added to it. You also have the option to write this out to a separate file for pegasus-plan to pick up.

fa = File("f.a").add_metadata(creator="ryan")
rc = ReplicaCatalog().add_replica("local", fa, Path(".").resolve() / "f.a")
wf.add_replica_catalog(rc)

In DAX3, you were also able to add executables directly to the ADAG object. In 5.0, the way to do this is to first add them to a TransformationCatalog and then add that catalog to the workflow as shown below. Note that we now refer to executables as transformations. In DAX3, you were not able to add containers directly to the ADAG object. They would instead need to be cataloged in the text based transformation catalog file. With the new api, you may create containers and add them to the workflow through the transformation catalog. For more information see Containers. Just as with the replica catalog, you have the option to write this catalog out to a separate file for pegasus-plan to pick up.

tc = TransformationCatalog()
preprocess = Transformation(
    "preprocess",
    site="condorpool",
    pfn="/usr/bin/pegasus-keg",
    is_stageable=False,
    arch=Arch.X86_64,
    os_type=OS.LINUX
)
tc.add_transformations(preprocess)
wf.add_transformation_catalog(tc)

When specifying AbstractJob inputs and outputs, simply add the Files as inputs or outputs. Unlike DAX3, you do not need to specify job.uses(..) as seen below.

fb1 = File("f.b1")
fb2 = File("f.b2")
job_preprocess = Job(preprocess)\
                    .add_args("-a", "preprocess", "-T", "3", "-i", fa, "-o", fb1, fb2)\
                    .add_inputs(fa)\
                    .add_outputs(fb1, fb2)
wf.add_jobs(job_reprocess)

Hierarchical workflows can be created by adding SubWorkflow jobs. The second argument, is_planned, in SubWorkflow specifies whether or not it has already been planned by the pegasus planner. When is_planned=False, this is the equivalent of using the DAX object in Pegasus.DAX3. When is_planned=True, this is the equivalent of using the DAG object in Pegasus.DAX3.

blackdiamond_wf = SubWorkflow("blackdiamond.yml", is_planned=False)\
                     .add_args("--input-dir", "input", "--output-sites", "local", "-vvv")

sleep_wf = SubWorkflow("sleep.yml", is_planned=False)\
            .add_args("--output-sites", "local", "-vvv")

wf.add_jobs(blackdiamond_wf, sleep_wf)

Profile functionality remains the same in Pegasus 5.0 (see ProfileMixin). Profiles can be added to the following:

job.add_env(PATH="/bin")
job.add_condor_profile(universe="vanilla")

# Alternatively you can use:
job.add_profiles(Namespace.ENV, PATH="/bin")
job.add_profiles(Namespace.CONDOR, universe="vanilla")

# When profile keys contain non-alphanumeric characters, you can use:
job.add_profiles(Namespace.CONDOR, key="+KeyName", value="val")

Metadata functionality also remains the same in Pegasus 5.0 (see MetadataMixin). Metadata can be added to the following:

preprocess.add_metadata(time=60, created_by="ryan")

13.2.5. Running Workflows

Using the Python API, you can run the workflow directly from the Workflow you have just created. This is done by calling plan on the Workflow after all jobs have been added to it. If submit=True is given to wf.plan, the workflow will be planned and submitted for execution. At that point, wf.plan() will return. If you would like to block until the actual workflow execution is called then wf.plan(submit=True).wait() can be used.

Attention

To use this feature, the Pegasus binaries must be added to your PATH and it is only supported in the new python api.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# set this if you would like to see output from the underlying pegasus command line tools
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

from Pegasus.api import *

wf = Workflow("diamond")

# Add properties
# ..
# .

# Add files, transformations, and jobs here
# ....
# ...
# ..
# .

try:
    # plan and submit the workflow for execution
    wf.plan(submit=True)

    # braindump becomes accessible following a call to wf.plan()
    print(wf.braindump.submit_dir)

    # wait for workflow execution to complete
    wf.wait()

    # workflow debugging and statistics
    wf.analyze()
    wf.statistics()
except PegasusClientError as e:
    print(e)

Tip

Because the property file, catalogs, and the workflow can all be generated and run programatically, it is recommended to keep everything in a single script so that a wrapper shell script is not needed.

13.3. Migrating From Pegasus 4.5.X to Pegasus 4.9.x

Most of the migrations from one version to another are related to database upgrades, that is addressed by running the tool pegasus-db-admin.

13.3.1. Database Upgrades From Pegasus 4.5.X to Pegasus current version

Since Pegasus 4.5 all databases are managed by a single tool: pegasus-db-admin. Databases will be automatically updated when pegasus-plan is invoked, but WORKFLOW databases from past runs may not be updated accordingly. Since Pegasus 4.6.0, the pegasus-db-admin tool provides an option to automatically update all databases from completed workflows in the MASTER database. To enable this option, run the following command:

$ pegasus-db-admin update -a
Your database has been updated.
Your database is compatible with Pegasus version: 4.7.0

Verifying and updating workflow databases:
21/21

Summary:
Verified/Updated: 21/21
Failed: 0/21
Unable to connect: 0/21
Unable to update (active workflows): 0/21

Log files:
20161006T134415-dbadmin.out (Succeeded operations)
20161006T134415-dbadmin.err (Failed operations)

This option generates a log file for succeeded operations, and a log file for failed operations. Each file contains the list of URLs of the succeeded/failed databases.

Note that, if no URL is provided, the tool will create/use a SQLite database in the user’s home directory: ${HOME}/.pegasus/workflow.db.

For complete description of pegasus-db-admin, see the man page.

13.3.2. Migration from Pegasus 4.6 to 4.7

In addition to the database changes, in Pegasus 4.7 the default submit directory layout was changed from a flat structure where all submit files independent of the number of jobs in the workflow appeared in a single directory. For 4.7, the default is a hierarchal directory structure two levels deep. To use the earlier layout, set the following property

pegasus.dir.submit.mapper     Flat

13.4. Migrating From Pegasus <4.5 to Pegasus 4.5.X

Since Pegasus 4.5 all databases are managed by a single tool: pegasus-db-admin. Databases will be automatically updated when pegasus-plan is invoked, but it may require manually invocation of the pegasus-db-admin for other Pegasus tools.

The check command verifies if the database is compatible with the Pegasus’ latest version. If the database is not compatible, it will print the following message:

$ pegasus-db-admin check
Your database is NOT compatible with version 4.5.0

If you are running the check command for the first time, the tool will prompt the following message:

Missing database tables or tables are not updated:
    dbversion
Run 'pegasus-db-admin update <path_to_database>' to create/update your database.

To update the database, run the following command:

$ pegasus-db-admin update
Your database has been updated.
Your database is compatible with Pegasus version: 4.5.0

The pegasus-db-admin tool can operate directly over a database URL, or can read configuration parameters from the properties file or a submit directory. In the later case, a database type should be provided to indicate which properties should be used to connect to the database. For example, the tool will seek for pegasus.catalog.replica.db.* properties to connect to the JDBCRC database; or seek for pegasus.catalog.master.url (or pegasus.dashboard.output, which is deprecated) property to connect to the MASTER database; or seek for the pegasus.catalog.workflow.url (or pegasus.monitord.output, which is deprecated) property to connect to the WORKFLOW database. If none of these properties are found, the tool will connect to the default database in the user’s home directory (sqlite:///${HOME}/.pegasus/workflow.db).

Example: connection by providing the URL to the database:

$ pegasus-db-admin create sqlite:///${HOME}/.pegasus/workflow.db
$ pegasus-db-admin update sqlite:///${HOME}/.pegasus/workflow.db

Example: connection by providing a properties file that contains the information to connect to the database. Note that a database type (MASTER, WORKFLOW, or JDBCRC) should be provided:

$ pegasus-db-admin update -c pegasus.properties -t MASTER
$ pegasus-db-admin update -c pegasus.properties -t JDBCRC
$ pegasus-db-admin update -c pegasus.properties -t WORKFLOW

Example: connection by providing the path to the submit directory containning the braindump.txt file, where information to connect to the database can be extracted. Note that a database type (MASTER, WORKFLOW, or JDBCRC) should also be provided:

$ pegasus-db-admin update -s /path/to/submitdir -t WORKFLOW
$ pegasus-db-admin update -s /path/to/submitdir -t MASTER
$ pegasus-db-admin update -s /path/to/submitdir -t JDBCRC

Note that, if no URL is provided, the tool will create/use a SQLite database in the user’s home directory: ${HOME}/.pegasus/workflow.db.

For complete description of pegasus-db-admin, see the man page.

13.5. Migrating From Pegasus 3.1 to Pegasus 4.X

With Pegasus 4.0 effort has been made to move the Pegasus installation to be FHS compliant, and to make workflows run better in Cloud environments and distributed grid environments. This chapter is for existing users of Pegasus who use Pegasus 3.1 to run their workflows and walks through the steps to move to using Pegasus 4.0

13.5.1. Move to FHS layout

Pegasus 4.0 is the first release of Pegasus which is Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) compliant. The native packages no longer installs under /opt. Instead, pegasus-* binaries are in /usr/bin/ and example workflows can be found under /usr/share/pegasus/examples/.

To find Pegasus system components, a pegasus-config tool is provided. pegasus-config supports setting up the environment for

  • Python

  • Perl

  • Java

  • Shell

For example, to find the PYTHONPATH for the DAX API, run:

export PYTHONPATH=`pegasus-config --python`

For complete description of pegasus-config, see the man page.

13.5.2. Stampede Schema Upgrade Tool

Starting Pegasus 4.x the monitoring and statistics database schema has changed. If you want to use the pegasus-statistics, pegasus-analyzer and pegasus-plots against a 3.x database you will need to upgrade the schema first using the schema upgrade tool /usr/share/pegasus/sql/schema_tool.py or /path/to/pegasus-4.x/share/pegasus/sql/schema_tool.py

Upgrading the schema is required for people using the MySQL database for storing their monitoring information if it was setup with 3.x monitoring tools.

If your setup uses the default SQLite database then the new databases run with Pegasus 4.x are automatically created with the correct schema. In this case you only need to upgrade the SQLite database from older runs if you wish to query them with the newer clients.

To upgrade the database

For SQLite Database

cd /to/the/workflow/directory/with/3.x.monitord.db

Check the db version

/usr/share/pegasus/sql/schema_tool.py -c connString=sqlite:////to/the/workflow/directory/with/workflow.stampede.db
2012-02-29T01:29:43.330476Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.init |
2012-02-29T01:29:43.330708Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema.start |
2012-02-29T01:29:43.348995Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema
                                   | Current version set to: 3.1.
2012-02-29T01:29:43.349133Z ERROR  netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema
                                   | Schema version 3.1 found - expecting 4.0 - database admin will need to run upgrade tool.


Convert the Database to be version 4.x compliant

/usr/share/pegasus/sql/schema_tool.py -u connString=sqlite:////to/the/workflow/directory/with/workflow.stampede.db
2012-02-29T01:35:35.046317Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.init |
2012-02-29T01:35:35.046554Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema.start |
2012-02-29T01:35:35.064762Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema
                                  | Current version set to: 3.1.
2012-02-29T01:35:35.064902Z ERROR  netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema
                                  | Schema version 3.1 found - expecting 4.0 - database admin will need to run upgrade tool.
2012-02-29T01:35:35.065001Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.upgrade_to_4_0
                                  | Upgrading to schema version 4.0.

Verify if the database has been converted to Version 4.x

/usr/share/pegasus/sql/schema_tool.py -c connString=sqlite:////to/the/workflow/directory/with/workflow.stampede.db
2012-02-29T01:39:17.218902Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.init |
2012-02-29T01:39:17.219141Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema.start |
2012-02-29T01:39:17.237492Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema | Current version set to: 4.0.
2012-02-29T01:39:17.237624Z INFO   netlogger.analysis.schema.schema_check.SchemaCheck.check_schema | Schema up to date.

For upgrading a MySQL database the steps remain the same. The only thing that changes is the connection String to the database
E.g.

/usr/share/pegasus/sql/schema_tool.py -u connString=mysql://username:password@server:port/dbname

After the database has been upgraded you can use either 3.x or 4.x clients to query the database with pegasus-statistics, as well as pegasus-plotsand pegasus-analyzer.

13.5.3. Existing users running in a condor pool with a non shared filesystem setup

Existing users that are running workflows in a cloud environment with a non shared filesystem setup have to do some trickery in the site catalog to include placeholders for local/submit host paths for execution sites when using CondorIO. In Pegasus 4.0, this has been rectified.

For example, for a 3.1 user, to run on a local-condor pool without a shared filesystem and use Condor file IO for file transfers, the site entry looks something like this

<site  handle="local-condor" arch="x86" os="LINUX">
       <grid  type="gt2" contact="localhost/jobmanager-fork" scheduler="Fork" jobtype="auxillary"/>
       <grid  type="gt2" contact="localhost/jobmanager-condor" scheduler="unknown" jobtype="compute"/>
       <head-fs>

         <!-- the paths for scratch filesystem are the paths on local site as we execute create dir job
              on local site. Improvements planned for 4.0 release.-->
           <scratch>
               <shared>
                   <file-server protocol="file" url="file:///" mount-point="/submit-host/scratch"/>
                   <internal-mount-point mount-point="/submit-host/scratch"/>
               </shared>
           </scratch>
           <storage>
               <shared>
                   <file-server protocol="file" url="file:///" mount-point="/glusterfs/scratch"/>
                   <internal-mount-point mount-point="/glusterfs/scratch"/>
               </shared>
           </storage>
       </head-fs>
       <replica-catalog  type="LRC" url="rlsn://dummyValue.url.edu" />
       <profile namespace="env" key="PEGASUS_HOME" >/cluster-software/pegasus/2.4.1</profile>
       <profile namespace="env" key="GLOBUS_LOCATION" >/cluster-software/globus/5.0.1</profile>

       <!-- profies for site to be treated as condor pool -->
       <profile namespace="pegasus" key="style" >condor</profile>
       <profile namespace="condor" key="universe" >vanilla</profile>


       <!-- to enable kickstart staging from local site-->
       <profile namespace="condor" key="transfer_executable">true</profile>


   </site>

With Pegasus 4.0 the site entry for a local-condor pool can be as concise as the following

<site  handle="condorpool" arch="x86" os="LINUX">
       <head-fs>
           <scratch />
           <storage />
       </head-fs>
       <profile namespace="pegasus" key="style" >condor</profile>
       <profile namespace="condor" key="universe" >vanilla</profile>
   </site>

The planner in 4.0 correctly picks up the paths from the local site entry to determine the staging location for the condor io on the submit host.

Users should read pegasus data staging configuration chapter and also look in the examples directory ( share/pegasus/examples).

13.6. Migrating From Pegasus 2.X to Pegasus 3.X

With Pegasus 3.0 effort has been made to simplify configuration. This chapter is for existing users of Pegasus who use Pegasus 2.x to run their workflows and walks through the steps to move to using Pegasus 3.0

13.6.1. PEGASUS_HOME and Setup Scripts

Earlier versions of Pegasus required users to have the environment variable PEGASUS_HOME set and to source a setup file $PEGASUS_HOME/setup.sh | $PEGASUS_HOME/setup.csh before running Pegasus to setup CLASSPATH and other variables.

Starting with Pegasus 3.0 this is no longer required. The above paths are automaticallly determined by the Pegasus tools when they are invoked.

All the users need to do is to set the PATH variable to pick up the pegasus executables from the bin directory.

$ export PATH=/some/install/pegasus-3.0.0/bin:$PATH

13.6.2. DAX Schema

Pegasus 3.0 by default now parses DAX documents conforming to the DAX Schema 3.2 available here and is explained in detail in the chapter on API references.

Starting Pegasus 3.0 , DAX generation API’s are provided in Java/Python and Perl for users to use in their DAX Generators. The use of API’s is highly encouraged. Support for the old DAX schema’s has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

For users, who still want to run using the old DAX formats i.e 3.0 or earlier, can for the time being set the following property in the properties and point it to dax-3.0 xsd of the installation.

pegasus.schema.dax  /some/install/pegasus-3.0/etc/dax-3.0.xsd

13.6.3. Site Catalog Format

Pegasus 3.0 by default now parses Site Catalog format conforming to the SC schema 3.0 ( XML3 ) available here and is explained in detail in the chapter on Catalogs.

Pegasus 3.0 comes with a pegasus-sc-converter that will convert users old site catalog ( XML ) to the XML3 format. Sample usage is given below.

$ pegasus-sc-converter -i sample.sites.xml -I XML -o sample.sites.xml3 -O XML3

2010.11.22 12:55:14.169 PST:   Written out the converted file to sample.sites.xml3

To use the converted site catalog, in the properties do the following

  1. unset pegasus.catalog.site or set pegasus.catalog.site to XML3

  2. point pegasus.catalog.site.file to the converted site catalog

13.6.4. Transformation Catalog Format

Pegasus 3.0 by default now parses a file based multiline textual format of a Transformation Catalog. The new Text format is explained in detail in the chapter on Catalogs.

Pegasus 3.0 comes with a pegasus-tc-converter that will convert users old transformation catalog ( File ) to the Text format. Sample usage is given below.

$ pegasus-tc-converter -i sample.tc.data -I File -o sample.tc.text -O Text

2010.11.22 12:53:16.661 PST:   Successfully converted Transformation Catalog from File to Text
2010.11.22 12:53:16.666 PST:   The output transfomation catalog is in file  /lfs1/software/install/pegasus/pegasus-3.0.0cvs/etc/sample.tc.text

To use the converted transformation catalog, in the properties do the following

  1. unset pegasus.catalog.transformation or set pegasus.catalog.transformation to Text

  2. point pegasus.catalog.transformation.file to the converted transformation catalog

13.6.5. Properties and Profiles Simplification

Starting with Pegasus 3.0 all profiles can be specified in the properties file. Profiles specified in the properties file have the lowest priority. Profiles are explained in the detail in theconfiguration chapter. As a result of this a lot of existing Pegasus Properties were replaced by profiles. The table below lists the properties removed and the new profile based names.

Property Keys removed and their Profile based replacement

Old Property Key

New Property Key

pegasus.local.env

no replacement. Specify env profiles for local site in the site catalog

pegasus.condor.release

condor.periodic_release

pegasus.condor.remove

condor.periodic_remove

pegasus.job.priority

condor.priority

pegasus.condor.output.stream

pegasus.condor.output.stream

pegasus.condor.error.stream

condor.stream_error

pegasus.dagman.retry

dagman.retry

pegasus.exitcode.impl

dagman.post

pegasus.exitcode.scope

dagman.post.scope

pegasus.exitcode.arguments

dagman.post.arguments

pegasus.exitcode.path.*

dagman.post.path.*

pegasus.dagman.maxpre

dagman.maxpre

pegasus.dagman.maxpost

dagman.maxpost

pegasus.dagman.maxidle

dagman.maxidle

pegasus.dagman.maxjobs

dagman.maxjobs

pegasus.remote.scheduler.min.maxwalltime

globus.maxwalltime

pegasus.remote.scheduler.min.maxtime

globus.maxtime

pegasus.remote.scheduler.min.maxcputime

globus.maxcputime

pegasus.remote.scheduler.queues

globus.queue

13.6.6. Profile Keys for Clustering

The pegasus profile keys for job clustering were renamed. The following table lists the old and the new names for the profile keys.

Old and New Names For Job Clustering Profile Keys

Old Pegasus Profile Key

New Pegasus Profile Key

collapse

clusters.size

bundle

clusters.num

13.6.7. Transfers Simplification

Pegasus 3.0 has a new default transfer client pegasus-transfer that is invoked by default for first level and second level staging. The pegasus-transfer client is a python based wrapper around various transfer clients like globus-url-copy, lcg-copy, wget, cp, ln . pegasus-transfer looks at source and destination url and figures out automatically which underlying client to use. pegasus-transfer is distributed with the PEGASUS and can be found in the bin subdirectory .

Also, the Bundle Transfer refiner has been made the default for pegasus 3.0. Most of the users no longer need to set any transfer related properties. The names of the profiles keys that control the Bundle Transfers have been changed . The following table lists the old and the new names for the Pegasus Profile Keys and are explained in details in the Profiles Chapter.

Old and New Names For Transfer Bundling Profile Keys

Old Pegasus Profile Key

New Pegasus Profile Keys

bundle.stagein

stagein.clusters | stagein.local.clusters | stagein.remote.clusters

bundle.stageout

stageout.clusters | stageout.local.clusters | stageout.remote.clusters

13.6.8. Worker Package Staging

Starting Pegasus 3.0 there is a separate boolean property pegasus.transfer.worker.package to enable worker package staging to the remote compute sites. Earlier it was bundled with user executables staging i.e if pegasus.catalog.transformation.mapper property was set to Staged .

13.6.9. Clients in bin directory

Starting with Pegasus 3.0 the pegasus clients in the bin directory have a pegasus prefix. The table below lists the old client names and new names for the clients that replaced them

Old Client Names and their New Names

Old Client

New Client

rc-client

pegasus-rc-client

tc-client

pegasus-tc-client

pegasus-get-sites

pegasus-sc-client

sc-client

pegasus-sc-converter

tailstatd

pegasus-monitord

genstats and genstats-breakdown

pegasus-statistics

show-job

pegasus-plots

dirmanager

pegasus-dirmanager

exitcode

pegasus-exitcode

rank-dax

pegasus-rank-dax

transfer

pegasus-transfer