4.2. Basic Configuration

To configure the Job Service you will need to specify:

• The location of the root job directory. The service creates one subdirectory inside this directory for each job. This directory must be on the same file-system as the Data Service's data directory so that data files can be hard-linked efficiently as jobs are started and stopped. Otherwise, the data must be copied which is slow and wastes disk space.
  
• A list of trusted management services. Normally, you can just click Add to accept the default management service. This is the SLA management service from the GRIA Service Provider Management package. Note that if the GRIA Basic Application Services package is deployed on a different machine to the GRIA Service Provider Management package, some additional access control setup is required. This is described in Links with Other Services in the Service Provider Management user guide. As an alternative to configuring the service to be managed, you can make use of the service unmanaged (free), by clicking the Make service free button.
• A list of applications which users can run using the service. See the Managing applications section for details.

The other fields on the configuration page are optional and are used for connecting the Job Service to computational clusters.

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