Automatic POOL scheduling.

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Hi everyone.

Is there a way to make slave computers switching pools automatically?

For example: We have interor and exterior teams and a renderfarm with 100 computers.

I want to make first 50 computers in farm to exclude "interior" pool automatically from 9am to 5pm and include again from 5pm to 9am.

It is very important for me. Because sometimes interior team send huge animations to the farm and it blocks exterior team. So i need to make first half of renderfarm to not picking up interior team's queues. But, once exterior team is done, i do not want to go thru all computers and let them use "interior" pool again. I want to automate this process.

I just find out that i can modify *.slaveSettings file in repository folder, but this way i need to create a miniprogram which will be running in windows schedule and then go thru all files and do the text edits according. But it require me to create that miniprogram and i do not know how to do that.

Thanx.

PS: sorry for my grammar, i'm from Russia

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Hi Alex,



There isn’t a way to automatically have slaves switch pools, but you

should be able to make use of the pool priority settings to accomplish

what you’re looking for.



For example, say you have 100 machines and two pools - Exterior and

Interior.



For the first 50 machines, assign them [1]Exterior and [2]Interior (in

that order).

For the rest, assign them [1]Interior and [2]Exterior (in that order).



If there are only Interior jobs in the queue, all 100 machines will

render them. As soon as Exterior jobs appear in the queue, the 50 slaves

that were assigned Exterior with priority [1] will move on to them as

soon as they finish their current task. Once all Exterior jobs are

complete, all 100 machines will continue on with the Interior jobs again.



Kind regards,

  • Ryan