Chapter 10: Installing and Configuring EnginFrame

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## Chapter 10: Installing and Configuring EnginFrame

EKM uses NICE EnginFrame for creating and managing remote visualization sessions, which are used to run interactive jobs in EKM. EnginFrame supports a number of remote visualization technologies such as DCV, VNC and HP RGS. It can also work with many job scheduling systems for load balancing remote visualization jobs. A schematic of the overall system architecture is shown below.

Figure 10.1: Integration of EnginFrame with EKM

EKM and EnginFrame servers can be on the same machine or separate machines. EnginFrame can also be broken down into EnginFrame Server and EnginFrame Agent, which could be on the same machine or separate machines. For the purposes of this chapter, it is assumed that both the EnginFrame Server and EnginFrame Agent will be installed on the same machine.

Here is how the process works:

1. A user logs in to EKM using any of the supported browsers.

2. The user starts a new remote desktop session on an interactive queue configured in EKM.

3. EKM passes this request to EnginFrame, which uses a job scheduler to start a new session on a visualization server or cluster. The details of the started session are passed back to EKM, and a job object for the session appears on the user’s Job Monitor page.

4. EKM allows the user to connect to the remote session through the job object on the Job Monitor page. This opens the Remote Visualization Client on the user’s machine, which enables them to interact with the remote session.

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