Sometimes machines in my deadline monitor show up as “new” under status. However these machines have been on the farm since I have been using deadline. Does anyone know what causes this? I am using Deadline 5 with Max 2012.
Thanks.
If you refresh your monitor a couple of times or close it and re-open it, do they change from showing “new” and go back to their usual state?
Yes they do. But then it comes back again every once and a while…
For a slave to show up as new, it must have a slave folder in the repository (\your\repository\slaves), with no *.slaveInfo file in it. If this happens in a somewhat random fashion, it’s likely there is a network issue or something that causes the file to not be visible to the Monitor.
Out of curiosity, is your network under heavy load when this occurs?
Cheers,
- Ryan
Yeah, I am pretty sure that there are certain times of the day when there is heavy loads on the network. Is there some way I can monitor this to see where and when these peak periods are happening?
That’s kind of a tough one. With higher-end network hardware, many of them will tell you when your network is under load, and on what ports.
We use a tool called Cacti here to monitor our traffic. Not a terribly easy thing to set up, but it’s good.
@eamsler My team also needs to monitor our network traffic. Could you provide us with Deadline host templates for Cacti so we can monitor our network traffic?