Oh boy. Lots of questions!
For “after current task completion” us the “RemoteControl” from deadlinecommand. It’s using the same code as the “Remote Control” menu in the Slave list.
deadlinecommand remotecontrol [machine name] OnLastTaskComplete ShutdownMachine
Here’s the list from the help text of dlc:
RemoteControl
Send the remote command to the Deadline Launcher running on the specified
machine(s).
[Machine Name(s)] The machine name, or a list of machine names
separated by commas.
[Remote Command] The remote command. The available commands are
StopLauncher, LaunchSlave, LaunchAllSlaves,
LaunchNewSlave, RemoveSlave, LaunchSlaveDelay,
StopSlave, RelaunchSlave, ForceStopSlave,
ForceRelaunchSlave, OnLastTaskComplete,
LaunchPulse, StopPulse, RestartPulse,
RemotePulseCommand, LaunchProxyServer,
StopProxyServer, RestartProxyServer,
LaunchBalancer, StopBalancer, RestartBalancer,
RemoteBalancerCommand, LaunchMonitor,
StopMonitor, StopConfig, RestartMachine,
StartMachine, ShutdownMachine, Execute,
ExecuteNoWait
[Argument] The argument for LaunchSlave, LaunchNewSlave,
and RemoveSlave is the name of the Slave. The
argument for Execute and ExecuteNoWait is the
command to execute. Valid arguments for
OnLastTaskComplete are Continue, StopSlave,
RestartSlave, CheckForTasks, CancelTask,
ClearFailureCache, ShutdownMachine [comment] and
RestartMachine [comment]. [comment] is a message
that can be sent to explain why the shutdown or
restart machine command was executed. It will be
recorded in the machines event log. Valid
arguments for RemotePulseCommand are
HouseCleaning, PendingJobScan, RepositoryRepair,
and PowerManagement. Valid arguments for
RemoteBalancerCommand are Balancing.
On the license front, Deadline actually has no awareness of how many licenses are available. It just knows when it can’t get one. You’d have to use the usual FlexLM tools for that like lmutil lmstat -S thinkbox -a
For the Slave info, this one:
deadlinecommand getslaves true