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Network Configuration User Guide

1 Network Configuration User Guide

The Deadline Configuration tool can be used to modify settings on slave render clients individually, or as a group. It also offers the ability to control the slaves remotely.

When the configuration tool starts, a dialogue will be presented with a list of available domains and/or workgroups. Select the domains and workgroups that contain the workstations and slaves that will access the Deadline Render Farm (if you are unsure of which domains to select, it won't cause any harm to select them all). If no domains appear, or if no domains are selected, you can check the Perform Domain Independent Search box. Note that this won't necessarily guarantee that all of your network machines will be found. You can also limit the search to a specific IP range, using * as the wild card.

The configuration tool will then scan the selected domains/workgroups of the network and display the current configurations of the machines running the Deadline Client. If the configuration tool has missed any machines on your network for whatever reason, you can add them manually by selecting File -> Additional Machines. You can specify either an ip address or host name. These additional machines are maintained between sessions, so you only have to do this once.

To access the configuration options, select the desired machine(s) and right-click to bring up the context menu. The following options are available:

Refresh Machine

Refresh the selected machine.

Connect by VNC

Connect to a remote machine via VNC. If the VNC encrypted password is not stored in the Repository settings, you will be prompted for the password. Click here for information on configuring VNC in Deadline.

This option is available if the VNC Repository settings allow for remote connections.

Connect by Remote Desktop

Connect to a remote machine via Remote Desktop. Simply enter your user name and password and click Connect. Click here for information on configuring RDC in Deadline.

This option is only available if the Remote Desktop settings allow for remote connections.

Connect by Remote Administrator

Connect to a remote machine via Remote Administrator. Click here for information on configuring Radmin in Deadline.

This option is only available if the Remote Administrator settings allow for remote connections.

Send Net Message

Net Send a message to a remote machine.

Modify Repository

Allows you to set the repository path to which a slave will default to. Use this option to set the default repository path to the location where you have installed the Deadline Repository. You can choose to restart the slaves after the change is made so that they recognize the change right away.

Modify FLEXlm Licensing Server

Allows you to change the FLEXlm license server from which a slave will attempt to obtain a license from. Simply specify the name of your License Server (or the location of the license file) and click OK. Click here for more information on setting up a FLEXlm server to use with Deadline.

Launch Slave At Startup

Set whether or not you want the slave on the remote machine to launch when Windows starts up.

Remote Control

Allows you to control a slave remotely. It provides the following options:

Force the Slave application to search for a job immediately if it sitting idle.
Start/Stop/Restart the Deadline Slave application.
Start/Restart/Shutdown the remote machine the Deadline Client is running on. Note that starting a remote machine requires that WakeOnLan be setup properly.
Stop/Restart the Deadline Slave application after it finishes its last task.
Shutdown/Restart the machine after the Dealine Slave finishes its last task.
Execute a command on the remote machine. To execute a DOS command, the command must be preceded with "cmd /C", which opens the DOS prompt, executes the command, and closes the prompt. For example:

cmd /C echo "foo" > c:\test.txt