Deadline 6 - Monitor Calls External Scripts [SOLVED]

Deadline
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Hello,
I wanted to ask if it’s possible to add a custom script to the Monitor’s Submit or Job Scripts menu, but reference the script outside of the repository. Putting scripts in [Repository]/scripts/Submission or [Repository]/script/Jobs works just fine, but I’d rather keep all custom scripts in one place that’s separate from the repository.

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There is the new ‘custom’ folder in the Repository that you can place custom scripts into. I know this is still inside the repository, but at least it’s separate from the scripts that ship with Deadline.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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The custom folder is better, but still not exactly what I was hoping for. Still, thank you for the reply.

4

Just thought I’d update this with a solution if anyone else wanted to know.
I added the path with all my custom scripts to Python Settings in the Deadline Monitor. For any custom scripts in the Deadline repository, I would then do something like this, making sure the name of my external script is not the same as the script in the repository:

CustomSubmission.py

import CustomSubmissionMain

########################################################################
## Main Function Called By Deadline
########################################################################
def __main__():
    CustomSubmissionMain.Run()

The Run() function replaced the main() function in the original, but everything else pretty much stayed the same.