Some things I came accross when Installing the DL6 beta 11:
When doing a clean install of Deadline 6 on Win7 64Bit, I’m missing the Lightwave PlugIn in the Submit menu.
Lightwave is in the Tools > Configure PlugIns, but not in the Submit Menu.
I’m also missing the Pulse Program, it doesn’t seem to be there any more. Is this correct?
An other thing, In al the DL 6 versions I never managed to use the Remote Control functions.
I would like that Dealine takes eighter ( Win, Mac or Linux ) slaves out of there sleep function when submitting a render. And putting the slaves back to sleep when the CPU is IDLE.
I managed to WOL my Linux systems with a *.bat file in Win7 containing MC-WOL followed by the MAC address. So It should be able to do this. Anyway I could never get this set-up to work in DL6.
DL6 is very anoying to un-install… it requires to Delete ini files manually from the ProgramData directory ( not so hard ), but also Deleting the Mongo File after stopping the Program Mongod.exe in TaskManager and to uninstall MongoDB in the Regedit. This should be made easier by an UnInstall that takes care of these things. It took me a while to figure this out and didn’t find any clear UnInstall directions.
I tried to Install DL6 Repository from a Win 7 32 Bit, it complained about limitations and the possibility not to be able to recover files in case of a crash.
Pulse is still installed just not a start menu link anymore. It’s un the program files\bin folder.
the 32 bit installation warning is because mongo doesn’t work well at all on 32 bit systems (see my ‘mongo has imploded’ thread). If you are running mongo on a 32bit system I recommend using the --noprealloc flag.
Does the “DeadLine Monitor” part need this Mongo to work? Can I Install DL6 on all 64 systems ( with one Mongo 64b on one of the machines ) and then use the a 32 bit system to control the Deadline monitor, submit jobs from the 32 bit system and monitor the renders. I have a 32 bit system that runs the floating licenses and I would like to use it as a Render Management Monitor as well. Just because this system isn’t rendering so it could be easier to access it from RDC or Radmin.
And how about Lightwave? In the Beta 11 version it doesn’t seem to be in the submit anymore.
Thanks for reporting this! Somehow it was dropped by the repository installer. It will be back in there for beta 12. I’ve attached the script here, so you can just unzip it to \your\repository\scripts\Submission.
As Gavin mentioned, it’s still there, just not in the Start menu. This is to help prevent Pulse from accidentally being run on workstations or nodes.
Is this the client uninstaller or repository uninstaller, or both? Which files specifically?
We could make this an option in the uninstaller to also uninstall mongo.
Mongo is NOT supported on 32 bit systems for production. Please install it on a 64 bit system.
Mongo is absolutely necessary for Deadline 6 to function (it’s the database that stores most of Deadline’s data). You can install it on one of your 64 bit machines, but it is recommended that it be installed on a server operating system (assuming you’re on Windows). If it’s non-server (ie: Windows 7), then you could potentially run into connection limitations.
Finally, in the future, it would help to split up unrelated problems into separate forum threads so we can address and follow up on them individually.
I’ve tried several uninstall methods: 1/ Uninstall through Control Panel > Remove Software, 2/ Uninstall through Client Uninstaller 3/ Uninstall through Repository Uninstaller
Non of these methods gave me an option ( or automatically ) uninstalled the Mongo Map.
I’m not clear on this Mongo thing so forgive my ignorance on this topic.
To clarify my next question, this is my setup at this point:
Small Low Power PC ( 32 bit ) only for License Service and Render management.
NAS for All Config files and Content files
2x Linux 64 bit Slaves to render
1x Windows 7 64 bit Slave to render ( Also my system to make all the 2D and 3D content with. )
Can I solve the Mongo issue without limitations, in this SetUp => I prefer a solution without changing the LowPower PC to a 64 bit on. And I also prefer without installing MongoDB on one of the Slaves.
I was thinking if the MongoDB is a DataBase… Is it possible to install the MongoDB on the NAS and install DL6 on the LowPower System or is this idea just impossible?
What can you suggest in this case?
For more information on the Mongo database and how Deadline uses it, check out the Overview section in the Database and Repository Installation Guide in the Deadline 6 documentation. You can download it in CHM or PDF format here: viewtopic.php?f=85&t=8912
The system that Mongo database is installed on must be able to run the Mongo server application. Note that we don’t have a separate installer for Mongo at this stage, so you may have to install it manually if you can’t run our repository installer on the NAS device.
Looks like your NAS isn’t a straight up Linux installation and only gives you web access, you could try installing Mongo through SSH. However, if you can’t install 3rd party applications and you really truly can’t install a 64Bit OS on your server I would recommend installing a 64bit VM on your file server (assuming your file server was made in the last 10 years) running a 64bit windows license (if you’re allowed 2 instances in your license agreement) or else a 64bit Ubuntu in the VM devoted to hosting the database.
I finally got som time to extra time to experiment with DL again. Could you tell me how to install MongoDB on the Synology?
I gan log in with Putty en Download fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb … -2.2.3.tgz
But I don’t seem to know how to install it.
I’m guessing you’ll want the Install MongoDB on Linux section.
Once it’s up and running, you can then enter in the database information in the repository installer. When running the repository installer, just remember to choose the option to connect to an existing database.
