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Jobs List

This list shows all the jobs that have been submitted to the Deadline Repository. It also displays useful information about each job such as it's name, user, status, error count, plug-in, etc. You can customize what info is displayed by right-clicking on the column headers and using drag & drop to change their order. You can also use the search box or the job filter toolbar to limit which jobs are displayed.

You can refresh a job's status by clicking or double-clicking on it. You can also access many options for a job, which are listed below, by right-clicking on it. Note that the availability of these options can vary depending on the context in which they are used.

Refresh Job

Refreshes the selected job.

Load New Jobs

Loads new jobs that have been submitted since the last Monitor refresh, without refreshing the jobs that are already displayed.

Refresh Visible Jobs

Refreshes the jobs that are currently visible in the job list. Any jobs that have been filtered out are not refreshed.

Refresh All Jobs

Refreshes all the jobs in the Monitor, and loads any new jobs that have been submitted since the last Monitor refresh.

Resume Failed Job

Resumes a job that is in the failed state. When you resume the job, you have the option to ignore Failed Job Detection or Failed Task Detection in the future. Note that this option is only visible when the jobs selected are in the failed state. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Release Pending Job

Releases a pending job, and removes all dependency and scheduling settings. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Make All Tasks Pending

For frame dependent jobs, moves all non-pending tasks to the pending state. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Resume Job

Resumes a job that is in the suspended state. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Suspend Job

Suspends a job that is in the queued or active state. If you suspend a job that is in the active state, any tasks that are currently rendering will be requeued. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Requeue Job

Requeues all the tasks for a job that is in the queued, active, suspended, or completed state. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Delete Job

Deletes a job. The job can be in any state. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Archive Job

Archives a job that is suspended, completed, or failed. Archived jobs cannot be brought out of the archived state. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Un-Archive Job

Un-archives an archived job. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Explore Output

Allows you to view the directory where a job's output is sent. If a job has multiple output directories, they will be listed in a separate submenu. This option to view the output directory is available if the job's output directory was specified during submission.

Copy Output Path

Copies a job's output directory to the clipboard. If a job has multiple output directories, they will be listed in a separate submenu. This option to view the output directory is available if the job's output directory was specified during submission.

Scan For Missing Output

Scans a job's output directory for any tasks that have missing output, or output with a size of zero. If any are found, you are given the option to requeue those tasks. This option is available if Deadline is aware of a job's output filename, which is specified during submission. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Resubmit Job

Allows you to resubmit an existing job with a new frame range and group size. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Scripts

You can also add your own custom python job scripts to the Scripts menu. See the Monitor Scripting documentation for more details.

Retrieve Data File

Allows you to save the scene file that was submitted with a job as an auxiliary to another location. This options is available if a scene file was submitted with a job as an auxiliary file.

Explore Repository Directory

Allows you to browse a job's directory in the Repository.

Notify Me When Complete

If you select this option, you will be notified when the selected job completes.

Modify Notification Users

Modify which users will receive a notification when this job completes. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Modify Notification Note

Modify a note which is appended to the notification that is sent to the user.

Email User

Allows you to email the user of the job using your default mail application.

Net Send User

Allows you to send a message to the machine of the user who owns the job.

Modify Properties / Machine Limit

Allows you to modify the properties of a job. The properties are split up into separate tabs: General, Advanced, Plug-in specific (if applicable), and Machine Limit. The Plug-in specific properties vary between the different plug-ins, and some plug-ins may not have a Plug-in specific properties tab at all. Note that when modifying properties for multiple jobs at once, the Plug-in specific tab will only be available if all selected jobs use the same plug-in. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

General Properties:

Job Name: The name of the job.
Comment: The comment for the job.
Department: The department the job was submitted from.
Pool: The pool that the job belongs to.
Group: The group that the job belongs to.
Priority: The priority of the job (0 = lowest, 100 = highest).
Job User: The user of the job.
Limit Groups: The limit groups that the job requires.
Min Render Time: If a task renders faster than this amount of time, it is requeued.
Max Render Time: The amount of time a slave has to render a single task before it timeouts and requeues the task.
On Task Timeout: You have the option to have the job report an error or notify you when a timeout is reached.
Enable Auto Task Timeout: If the job should automatically timeout based on parameters specified in the Repository Options.

Advanced Properties:

Concurrent Tasks: The number of tasks a slave can dequeue at a time (1-16). Note that not all plug-ins support this feature, such as 3dsmax and Digital Fusion.
Limit Tasks To Slave's Task Limit: If checked, a slave will not dequeue more tasks than it is allowed to based on its settings.
Notification Method: If overriding the notification method, this is the method to use.
Override Notification Method: If the job's notification method should be overwritten.
On Job Complete: When a job completes, you can auto-archive or auto-delete it. You can also choose to do nothing when the job completes.
Reload Plugin Between Frames: If checked, the slave reloads all the plug-in files between tasks for the same job.
Enforce Sequential Rendering: Sequential rendering forces a slave to render the tasks of a job in order. If an earlier task is ever requeued, the slave won't go back to that task until it has finished the remaining tasks in order.
Job Is Interruptible: If enabled, this job can be interrupted during rendering by a job with a higher priority.
Ignore Failed Job Detection: If checked, jobs that report more errors than what is allowed in the Failed Job Detection settings will continue to render without ever failing.
Ignore Failed Task Detection: If checked, task that report more errors than what is allowed in the Failed Task Detection settings will continue to render without ever failing.
Ignore Bad Job Detection: If checked, slaves will never mark the job as bad for themselves. This means that they will continue to make attemps at jobs that often report errors until the job is complete, or until it fails.
Send Warning For Job Errors: If checked, the job's user will receive a warning email if the job has reported more errors than that specified in the Repository Options.
Pre Job Script: Specify the path to a python script to execute when the job initially starts rendering.
Post Job Script: Specify the path to a python script to execute when the job finishes rendering.
Pre Job Script: Specify the path to a python script to execute before each task starts rendering.
Pre Job Script: Specify the path to a python script to execute after each task finishes rendering.

To get a description of specific plug-in properties, just hover your mouse cursor over them in the properties dialog and a tooltip will pop up with a description. You can also check out the Plug-ins Guide for more information.

Machine Limit:

Limit: The maximum number of slaves that will render this job at a time (0 = no limit).
Release At Task Percentage: If set, the slave rendering the job will give up its current machine limit lock when the current task reaches the specified progress. The usefulness of this feature is directly related to the progress reporting capabilities of the individual plug-ins.
Blacklisted / Whitelisted Slaves: Place slaves on a blacklist or a whitelist. If using a blacklist, those slaves will never try to render the job. If using a whitelist, only those slaves will try to render the job.
Clear: If checked, the blacklist / whitelist will be cleared after clicking OK.
Overwrite: If checked, the original blacklists / whitelists for the selected slaves will be overwritten with the current lists (this option is only enabled when modifying the machine limit for more than one slave at a time).

Modify Dependencies

You can set which jobs that this job is dependent on. By default, the job will only resume when each of its dependencies have completed, but you can also have your job resume when the dependencies have failed, or have been deleted from the queue. Note that you can only set which jobs this job is dependent on, not which jobs are dependent on this job. You can also make the job frame dependent, which means that a frame from the job won't begin rendering until the same frame from the other job(s) is complete. This is useful if you have a job that is dependent on the frames of another job, and you want the two jobs to render concurrently.

As an alternative, you can drag & drop jobs onto other jobs to set dependencies, providing you have enabled the feature in you Monitor User Options. If you check the Overwrite checkbox in the confirmation dialog, the selected job(s) current dependency list will be cleared before adding the highlighted job to it. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Modify Frame Range

Allows you to modify the frame range and group size of a job. Note that modifying these settings will stop and requeue all tasks that are currently rendering. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Modify Scheduling

This option allows you to schedule a job to run at a specific time once, or on daily intervals. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

View Dependencies

Allows you to view the dependencies of a job. This option is available if the job is dependent on one or more jobs.

View History

Allows you to view the entire history of a job. This includes any modifications to the job's properties, if and when it was ever suspended, etc. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Transfer Job

Allows you to setup a job transfer, which moves a submits a suspended job from one Repository to another. This option is available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

Job Reports

Allows you to view the errors, logs, and requeue reports for a job, as well as clear them. The clear options are only available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode.

View Errors

Allows you to view the errors for a job. The rendering time wasted due to errors is shown in the top-right corner.

You can right-click on one or more errors to bring up a list of options:

Connect by VNC: VNC into the machine that reported the error.
Connect by Remote Desktop: remote desktop into the machine that reported the error.
Connect by Remote Administrator: use Radmin to remote into the machine that reported the error.
Send Net Message: Send a net message to the machine that reported the error.
Blacklist/Un-Whitelist Slave: If the job has a blacklist, add the slave that reported the error to it. If the job has a whitelist, remove the slave from it.
Remote Control: Remote control the slave/machine that reported the error.
Save Report: Save the selected error report.
Delete Report: Delete the selected error report (note that this option is only available if you are the job's user, or if you are in super user mode).
Report To Sys Admin: Allows you to report the selected error reports to the System Administration email account that was specified in the Deadline Repository Options.
Report To Frantic: Allows you to report the selected error reports to Frantic Films so the Deadline support team can look at it (you can provide additional comments that might help us diagnose the problem).

View Logs

Allows you to view the task logs for a job.

View Requeues

Allows you to view the task requeues for a job. Selecting a requeue will show why the task was requeued. The rendering time wasted due to requeue