Obtaining Queue Control
 
 
 

The Backburner Monitor enforces a simple queue control mechanism to avoid conflicting requests from different users of the Backburner Windows Monitor. The first monitor establishing a connection to the manager is automatically granted queue control, and can perform all job-related activities, including stopping, restarting, or deleting jobs. Subsequently, other monitors connect in read-only mode, allowing them to observe the activity on the Backburner network only.

To obtain queue control:

  1. From the Manager menu, choose Request Client List.

    A Client List dialog appears, showing the status of all users connected to the manager via the Backburner Windows Monitor.

    The Status column indicates the user with control of the queue.

  2. Dismiss the dialog, then obtain queue control. From the Manager menu, choose Request Queue Control.

    The manager transmits the request to the user currently with queue control. A message similar to the following appears on the remote machine.

  3. As indicated in the dialog, the user has 10 seconds to actively refuse the request; otherwise, control of the queue passes over to you, and the status at the other workstation reverts to “read-only”.
  4. You can now perform all operations on jobs and servers on the Backburner network.