[IPython-dev] Debugging parallel engines

[Dave Hirschfeld]

I'm running a local cluster and would like to debug an error on one of the 
engines. With the notebook it's very handy to start up a qtconsole, connecting 
to the currently running notebook kernel as follows:

Notebook log message:
2013-05-29 11:49:08.684 [NotebookApp] Kernel started: 4008d184-2b6f-4a8f-9447-
f435c33e0abf

Command to connect a qtconsole to the running kernel:
ipython qtconsole --existing=kernel-4008d184-2b6f-4a8f-9447-f435c33e0abf.json


When starting an engine however no message is printed stating which file to 
use to connect to it.

Is it possible to connect a qtconsole to a currently running parallel engine 
instance?

Thanks,
Dave