Deadline - Command prompt

Deadline
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Hi guys,

Does anyone working with deadline through command prompt without opening its GUI?

I wondering where could I get those commands help to use in my project.

thanks for your time,
regards,
Prasad.

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Hi Prasad,

The documentation for deadlinecommand can be found here:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-command/

You can also run “deadlinecommand -help” from a command prompt to get the usage instructions.

For job submission from the command line, see this:
thinkboxsoftware.com/job-sub … o_Deadline

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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HI Ryan,

I gone through the meterial and tested command line job submission and ended with couple of exception errors.

I am uploading my files that I used to run in command line based rendering. Can anyone have a look at it and tell me where I am going wrong?

I am getting errors as in attached file folder.

Please help where I am going wrong in giving RenderExecutable()

many thanks,
_prasad
files.rar (1.77 KB)

4

Hi Prasad,

Because there is already a Terragen plugin, you should submit to that instead of submitting a generic command line job. You should be able to submit the job simply by running this command:

deadlinecommand.exe "C:\Users\Prasad\Desktop\Command Test\Terragen_job_info.job" "C:\Users\Prasad\Desktop\Command Test\Terragen_plugin_info.job

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Hi Ryan,

I am getting the following error

13th line should be

but its guiding to deadline exe file??

any idea where I need to change the arguments??

thanks,
-Prasad

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Hi Prasad,

It looks like this job is still going to the CommandScript plugin. Here is the full procedure to submit this job to Deadline properly:

  1. Create the job info file. Based on your previous example, this file should look like the following. For this example, we’ll call the file Terragen_job_info.job:
Plugin=Terragen
Name=Terragen Test
Comment=
Department=
Pool=none
Group=none
Priority=100
TaskTimeoutMinutes=0
EnableAutoTimeout=False
ConcurrentTasks=1
LimitConcurrentTasksToNumberOfCpus=True
MachineLimit=0
Whitelist=
LimitGroups=
JobDependencies=
OnJobComplete=Nothing
InitialStatus=Suspended
OutputDirectory0=C:\Users\Prasad\Desktop
Frames=1
ChunkSize=1
  1. Create the plugin info file. Based on your previous example, this file should look like the following. For this example, we’ll call the file Terragen_plugin_info.job:
ProjectFile=C:\Users\Prasad\Desktop\image30000.tgd
RenderNode=
OutputFile=C:\Users\Prasad\Desktop\2.bmp
ExtraOutputFile=
LocalRendering=True
  1. Let’s assume you save both of these files to C:\temp. Then open a command prompt and run this command:
deadlinecommand.exe "C:\temp\Terragen_job_info.job" "C:\temp\Terragen_plugin_info.job

Note that this is pretty much what the Terragen submission script in the Monitor is doing.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
7

Thanks Ryan,

I just came home. First thing in the next morning I will test this and give you feedback.
Many thanks for your quick replies…

regards,
Prasad.

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Hi Ryan,

I posted a reply lastnight and today it disappeard!! maybe it might have lost while shifting old forums to thinkboxsoftware forums.

Anyway, here is what I am looking for…

I tried again and again of submiting terragen jobs into deadline thru command prompt and found the same old errors as above.
I guess, what I had *.job files are in incorrect format, will it be possible to find and sent the correct format *.job files which I can simply attach them thru command line and run smoothly?

I am asking files directly cause, I tried alot in changing names in job files but nothing seems to work. Before I confirm to my college for buying more nodes, I need to fix this first.

Please help!!

-Prasad

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Hi Prasad,

I’ve zipped up an attached the job files here. I tested submitting them and they worked fine. Just to make sure there isn’t something wrong with the Terragen plugin (due to a corrupt install or something), are you able to submit Terragen jobs from the submission menu in the Monitor without this problem?

Cheers,

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Hi Ryan,

Yeah these files are working. Many thanks.

But, when I submit the job through command line, its going in suspended mode which I need to open monitor and resume it to work.

Any idea how can I submit the job directly to work??

regards,
Prasad.

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Hi Prasad,

Glad to hear it’s working. To prevent the job from being suspended after submission, just remove this line from Terragen_job_info.job:

InitialStatus=Suspended

Cheers,

  • Ryan