Description

Allows you to enable or disable a DBS (Distributed Batch System) slave.

A slave seat provides processing services to the DBS master seat, receiving tasks from the master seat and returning the results. A DBS slave can only actively process requests from one master at a time. In order for the master and slave to communicate, they must be on the same workgroup and port.

Functional area

Master/Slave

Command syntax

Syntax

slave on/off/toggle [-port integer] [-workgroup string]

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`on/off/toggle`	boolean	yes	Turn the slave on or off

Flags

Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`port`		integer		Sets the port that the slave uses to listen for broadcasts from the master. It accepts a number value from 1 to 49150 and it must be set to the same port number as the master.
`workgroup`	1	string	—	Sets this slave as part of the given processing workgroup. See Description above for information about processing.

Return value

void

Examples

// This command will enable a DBS slave and join it as part of
// the "Farming" processing group.
slave on -workgroup "Farming";
slave toggle –workgroup "DBSWorkgroup" – port 5419;

Additional information

Related commands

master