Start your run

Make sure a rocoto module is loaded: module load rocoto

If needed check for available rocoto modules on machine: module avail rocoto or module spider rocoto

Start your run from within your EXPDIR

rocotorun -d $PSLOT.db -w $PSLOT.xml

The first jobs of your run should now be queued or already running (depending on machine traffic). How exciting!

You'll now have a "logs" folder in both your COMROT and EXPDIR. The EXPDIR log folder contains workflow log files (e.g. rocoto command results) and the COMROT log folder will contain logs for each job (previously known as dayfiles).

Set up your experiment cron

Note: Orion currently only supports cron on Orion-login-1. Cron support for other login nodes is coming in the future.

crontab -e

or

crontab $PSLOT.crontab

(WARNING: "crontab $PSLOT.crontab" command will overwrite existing crontab file on your login node. If running multiple crons recommend editing crontab file with "crontab -e" command.

Check your crontab setting:

crontab -l

Crontab uses following format:

*/5 * * * * /path/to/rocotorun -w /path/to/workflow/definition/file -d /path/to/workflow/database/file