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htcondor — HTCondor Manual

Manage HTCondor jobs, job sets, dags, event logs, and resources

htcondor [ -h | --help ] [ -v | -q ]

htcondor job submit [--resource resource-type] [--runtime time-seconds] [--email email-address] submit_file
htcondor job status [--resource resource-type] [--skip-history] job_id
htcondor job out [--resource resource-type] [--skip-history] job_id
htcondor job error [--resource resource-type] [--skip-history] job_id
htcondor job log [--resource resource-type] [--skip-history] job_id
htcondor job resources [--resource resource-type] [--skip-history] job_id

htcondor jobset submit description-file
htcondor jobset list [--allusers]
htcondor jobset status job-set-name [--owner user-name] [--nobatch] [--skip-history]
htcondor jobset remove job-set-name [--owner user-name]

htcondor dag submit dag-file
htcondor dag status dagman-job-id
htcondor dag halt [-r/--reason message] dagman-job-id
htcondor dag resume dagman-job-id
htcondor dag histogram [-i/--instant | -c/--cumulative] dagman-job-id
htcondor dag throttle [--nodes N] [--idle N] [--pre N] [--hold N] [--post N] [--submissions N] dagman-job-id
htcondor dag resources [-history] dagman-job-id

htcondor eventlog read [-csv | -json] [--groupby attribute] eventlog [eventlog2 [eventlog3 ...]]
htcondor eventlog follow [-csv | -json] [--groupby attribute] eventlog
htcondor eventlog histogram [-i/--instant | -c/--cumulative] eventlog

htcondor annex create [description-options] annex-name queue@system
htcondor annex add [description-options] annex-name queue@system
htcondor annex status annex-name
htcondor annex shutdown annex-name
htcondor annex systems
htcondor annex login system-name

htcondor credential list
htcondor credential add password|kerberos|oauth2 credential-file [--service service] [--handle handle]
htcondor credential remove password|kerberos|oauth2 [--service service] [--handle handle]
htcondor credential listall
htcondor credential get oauth2 --service service [--handle handle]

htcondor server status

htcondor ap status [hostname ...]
htcondor ap claims [--name ap-name]

htcondor ep rehome [--schedd-pool pool] [--cancel] [--timeout seconds] [--reboot] ep-name schedd-name
htcondor ep status ep-name

htcondor cm status

htcondor is a tool for managing HTCondor jobs, job sets, resources, event logs, DAGs, and annexes.  It can replace condor_submit, condor_submit_dag, condor_q, condor_status, and condor_userlog, and adds new functionality and features.  The user interface is more consistent than its predecessor tools.

The first argument of the htcondor command (ignoring any global options) is the noun representing an object in the HTCondor system to be operated on. The nouns include an individual job, jobset, eventlog, dag, or annex​.  Each noun is then followed by a noun-specific verb that describes the operation on that noun.

One of the following optional global option may appear before the noun:

htcondor -h, htcondor --help

Display the help message.  Can also be specified after any noun or verb to display the options available for each noun or verb.

htcondor -q ...

Reduce verbosity of log messages.

htcondor -v ...

Increase verbosity of log messages.

A noun-specific verb appears after each noun; the verbs are sorted by noun in the list, which includes with their individual option flags.

htcondor job submit submit_file

Takes as an argument a submit file in the condor_submit job submit description language, and places a new job in an Access Point

htcondor job submit options

htcondor job submit --resource resource_type submit_file

Resource type used to run this job. Currently supports Slurm and EC2​. Assumes the necessary setup is complete and security tokens available.

htcondor job submit --runtime runtime_in_seconds submit_file

Amount of time in seconds to allocate resources. Used in conjunction with the --resource flag.

htcondor job submit --email address submit_file

Email address to receive notification messages. Used in conjunction with the --resource flag.

htcondor job status

Takes as an argument a job id in the form of clusterid.procid, and returns a human readable presentation of the status of that job.

job status option

htcondor job status --skip-history job.id

Passed to the status verb to skip checking history if job not found in the active job queue.

htcondor job out

Takes as an argument a job id in the form of clusterid.procid, and prints out the contents of that job's standard output file, assuming that it exists on the AP.

htcondor job err

Takes as an argument a job id in the form of clusterid.procid, and prints out the contents of that job's standard error file, assuming that it exists on the AP.

htcondor job log

Takes as an argument a job id in the form of clusterid.procid, and prints out the contents of that job's event log file.  If the job shared an event log file with other jobs, the complete event log file will be printed, which may contain events for other jobs.

htcondor job resources

Takes as an argument a job id in the form of clusterid.procid, and returns a human readable presentation the machine resource used by this job.

htcondor jobset submit submit_file

Takes as an argument a submit file in the condor_submit job submit description language, and places a new job set in an Access Point

htcondor jobset list

Succinctly lists all the jobsets in the queue which are owned by the current user.

htcondor jobset list options

htcondor jobset list --allusers

Shows jobs from all users, not just those owned by the current user.

htcondor jobset status submit_file

Takes as an argument a job set name, and shows detailed information about that job set.

htcondor jobset status options

htcondor jobset status --nobatch

Shows jobs in a more detailed view, one line per job

htcondor jobset status --owner ownername

Shows jobs from the specified job owner.

htcondor jobset status --skiphistory

Shows detailed information only about active jobs in the queue, and ignore historical jobs which have left the queue.  This runs much faster.

htcondor jobset remove job_name

Takes as an argument a job_name in the queue, and removes it from the Access Point.

htcondor jobsets remove options

htcondor jobset remove --owner=owner_name Removes all jobs owned by the given owner.

htcondor eventlog read logfile optional-other-logfile

Takes one or more arguments, which are event log files to process.  It may be the per-job or per-jobset eventlog, which was specified by the log = some_file in the submit description language.  For a dag, it may also be the nodes.log file that all dags generate.  Or, if the global event log is enabled by an administrator with the EVENT_LOG configuration knob, it may be the global event log, containing information about all jobs on the Access point.

Given this, htcondor eventlog read returns information about all the contained jobs, and their status. It runs much faster than condor_history, because these logs are more concise than the history files.  Unlike condor_history, it will also show information about jobs that have not yet left the queue.

htcondor eventlog follow logfile

Takes as an argument an event log to process, as above, but instead of processing that file to completion, it does the equivalent of tail -f, and runs until interruption, emitting information about jobs as it appears in the file.

Eventlog Options

--csv

By default, htcondor eventlog read emits a table of information in human readable format.  With this option, the output is in a command separated value format, suitable for injestion by a spreadsheet or database.

--json

Emits output in the json format. Only one of -csv or -json should be given.

--group-by attributeName

With a job ad attribute name, instead of one line per job, emit one line summarizing all jobs that share the same value for the attribute name given.  In the OSG, the GLIDEIN_SITE attribute is injected into all jobs, so one can quickly get a count of all jobs running, idle and exitted per site by using this option.

htcondor eventlog histogram logfile

Display a histogram of job states over time for all jobs present in the provided logfile​.

-i/--instant

Show state transitions per time bucket.

-c/--cumulative

Show cumulative job states over time. This is the default.

An annex is a named set of leased resources.  If the AP's administrator has enabled this command, any submitter who can run jobs on one of the supported systems can use resources from that system to run jobs placed at that AP.

htcondor annex create [description-options] annex-name queue@system
htcondor annex add [description-options] annex-name queue@system

A credential is (part of) the authentication data necessary to verify identity (or capability).  This noun refers to three different types of credentials: password, kerberos, and oauth2​.  For this tool, password credentials are only useful on Windows, where they are required to run a job as its submitter.  Likewise, kerberos credentials are only useful on APs which use Kerberos; HTCondor can run jobs with the Kerberos credentials of their submitters, usually to allow them to access files of AFS.  Finally, oauth2 credentials refer to a number of different kinds of credentials usually (but not always) obtained via the OAuth2 protocol, but which HTCondor knows how to refresh and distribute to jobs which request them.

htcondor credential list

Lists the credentials associated with the current user.  (To be precise, the identifier the current user authenticates as to HTCondor when they run this command.)  Windows passwords and Kerberos credentials are unique for each such identity, and only their presence (and last-refresh time) is reported.  A user may have multiple OAuth2 credentials, one or more from one or more different services, distinguished by their handles.  The service name, handle name, and file name in the $CONDOR_CREDS directory are listed, in addition to the last-refresh time, for each OAuth2 credential.

htcondor credential add password|kerberos|oauth2 credential-file [--service service] [--handle handle]

Sets the stored Windows password, Kerberos credential, or OAuth2 credential to the contents of the named file.  For OAuth2 credentials, the service and handle will be derived from the file name unless specified with the corresponding flags.

htcondor credential remove password|kerberos|oauth2 [--service service] [--handle handle]

Unsets the stored Windows password, Kerberos credential, or OAuth2 credential(s).  If you specify a service, the credential from that service without a handle will be removed.  To remove a specific credential, you must specify both its service and its handle.  If you specify neither service nor handle, all OAuth2 tokens are removed.

htcondor credential listall

Lists the OAuth2 credentials stored by the local HTCondor installation. Credentials are listed by their corresponding user.  The service name, handle name, and file name in the $CONDOR_CREDS directory are listed, in addition to the last-refresh time, for each OAuth2 credential.  Each credential also lists the job or jobs currently in the queue which require it.

This command must be run with permission to access the credentials directory (SEC_CREDENTIAL_DIRECTORY_OAUTH <href="../admin-manual/configuration/security.html#SEC_CREDENTIAL_DIRECTORY_OAUTH">); in most cases, this means as root​.

htcondor credential get oauth2 --service service [--handle handle]

Gets the stored OAuth2 credential specified by service (and optionally handle) and print it to standard out.

$ htcondor eventlog read logfile

Job       Host            Start Time   Evict Time   Evictions   Wall Time     Good Time     CPU Usage
19989.0   slot1_1@speedy  5/18 12:34   5/18 12:54   0           0+00:20:00    0+00:20:00    0+00:00:00
19990.0   slot1_1@lumpy   5/22 18:51   5/22 18:51   1           0+00:02:00    0+00:00:00    0+00:00:43
20003.0   slot1_1@chtc    8/9 23:33    8/9 23:37    1           0+00:04:00    0+00:00:00    0+00:00:00
20004.0   slot1_1@wisc    8/9 23:38    8/9 23:58    0           0+00:20:00    0+00:20:00    0+00:00:00

htcondor will exit with a non-zero status value if it fails and zero status if it succeeds.

HTCondor Team

1990-2026, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.