Day & Night Setup

Deadline
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We would like to run a different pool setup on night and day. Is it possible to store the pool setups of the render slaves at once so they can be switched.

At night I don’t want a render slave to run idle while at day during production I want to assign certain render slaves only to one pool.

Looking forward to your answers.

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You could set up a scheduled task or cron job to run "deadlinecommand -SetPoolsForSlave:

For example, at night, you can assign slaves 1, 2, and 3 to three pools:

deadlinecommand -SetPoolsForSlave Slave001,Slave002,Slave003 pool1,pool2,pool3

During the day, you can assign them to just one pool:

deadlinecommand -SetPoolsForSlave Slave001,Slave002,Slave003 pool2

Hope that helps!

  • Ryan
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Thanks a lot!!! That’s exactly what we were looking for.