The minimal set of options to start an annex follows: {term} -$ condor_annex -name MyFirstAnnex -slots 3 -duration 24h +$ condor_annex --project-name MyFirstAnnex --count 3 --expiry "2017-01-20 17:18:19" {endterm} -_[The collector address and pool password will be obtained from configuration; previous steps configured the default AMI and JSON; the latter will specify_ count _in units of 1 core and 2GB of RAM (for the instance types which exist at the time of release). We also need to write code to generate and upload the configuration corresponding to the collector and password file in question.]_ +_[The collector address and the password file path are both extracted from the command environment's HTCondor configuration. The password file is uploaded to a private S3 bucket managed by condor_annex; the location is passed into the custom AMI via the usual instance contextualization methods.]_ -This command will return after HTCondor has set up the 24-hour lease and requested that Amazon start 3 slots, each with one CPU and 2 GB of RAM. +This command will return after HTCondor has set up the lease and requested that Amazon start 3 instances of the type(s) you specified in step FIXME (or add --instance-types to this command). -It may take a few minutes for the annex's slots to show up, but they will be assigned in the next negotiation cycle (which may also take a few minutes), and your jobs will start running shortly after that. - -If slot aren't available - -_[The instructions above configure the schedd to flock to the annex's central manager. Although it would be easy enough to set the_ =START= _expression for the annex instances so that only the user who started the annex could run jobs there, the administrator may not want to give end-users (with root on the instances) write access to their pool's collector.]_ +It will take a few minutes for the annex's slots to show up, but they will be assigned in the next negotiation cycle (which may also take a few minutes), and your jobs will start running shortly after that. {section: Monitor your Annex}