User manual APPLE BATCH MONITOR

[. . . ] Â Cluster list: Displays a list computers available for processing batches, including "This Computer" (the one running Batch Monitor) and all enabled Apple Qmaster processing clusters on your network. Â User buttons: Click the Me button to display batches you submitted. (See the Distributed Processing Setup guide for information about permissions and password protection. ) Â Status buttons: Click the Active button to display batches that the selected cluster is currently processing. Click Completed to display batches that the selected cluster has already completed. [. . . ] Because it is a standalone application, you can view the Batch Monitor window whether or not Compressor or Apple Qmaster is open or whether or not you have submitted anything. Note: By default, Batch Monitor will launch automatically whenever you submit a batch using Apple Qmaster. You can enable the same automatic behavior for Compressor by selecting the "Auto launch Batch Monitor" checkbox in Compressor preferences. 5 To view the status of your batch: 1 To manually open the Batch Monitor, do one of the following: Â Double-click the Batch Monitor icon in the Utilities folder. Â Click the Batch Monitor button in either the Compressor window or the Apple Qmaster window. 2 View the batch processing details and take any necessary action: Â Click the disclosure triangle next to the batch, job, or target name to reveal information about the component parts of that item. Â To pause a job, batch, or target, click the corresponding Pause toggle button. Â To restart the processing for an item, click the Resume toggle button. Â To cancel a job, batch, or target, click its Cancel button. Click the disclosure triangle next to an item to reveal more information. Show Info Pause Cancel Resume When the progress bar reaches 100 percent, your media file has been successfully transcoded and saved in the designated destination folder. Completed batch and job items are marked "Successful" and remain in the batch display. Unsuccessful batch and job items are marked "Failed" and remain in the batch display. 3 Click the Show Info button for any item in the batch display to view information about that item. In the inspector window that appears, click on either the Status tab or the Log tab to view the respective details. 4 Open the destination folder to view the newly transcoded output media file. 6 Batch Monitor and Distributed Processing If you have set up an Apple Qmaster distributed processing system to process Compressor or Apple Qmaster jobs, then Batch Monitor will offer some additional features. For example, both administrators and client users can use the Batch Monitor to monitor the processing of submitted jobs. Administrators can stop or cancel any batch, as long as they have the administrator password for the cluster that is processing the batch, and users can stop or cancel their own batches. The Batch Monitor and Passwords There are different kinds of passwords that may affect how you use the Batch Monitor. Administrator Password If you create this password, administrators will need to know it in order to modify this cluster and to view the selected cluster's batches in the Batch Monitor To create an administrator password, click the Security tab in Apple Qadministrator. User Password If you create this password, users will need to know it in order to submit batches to the selected cluster and to view those batches in the Batch Monitor. [. . . ] Batch Monitor Preferences opens. 8 To control what appears in the Batch Monitor batch display, select or deselect the checkbox next to the following items under the View Options heading: m Show Jobs: Select this checkbox to display job views (and target and segment views). m Show Targets: Select this checkbox to display target views (and segment views). To control how often Batch Monitor information is updated: m Use the "Update every" field to enter the number of seconds between updates from processing computers. You can set how many seconds should pass before the Batch Monitor updates with information sent by the processing computer. To control whether Batch Monitor can browse clusters from a wide area network, do one of the following: m Select Browse Wide Area Network to have Compressor use computers beyond the local subnet, and enter the DNS domain in the DNS Domain field. m Deselect Browse Wide Area Network to have Compressor limit itself to computers in the local subnet. [. . . ]