It would be nice if you could choose a render node and choose an option like “Create Batch File” to clone a deadline 6 installation with pools etc preconfigured.
Yes nice, like that.
Pools are configured in the repository, so that wouldn’t be part of the client installation. However, we do want to expand our Autoconfigure feature to have slaves auto-configure their own pools and groups based on rulesets when they startup. We don’t have an ETA for this, but hopefully we can start looking at it during the 6.x cycle.
The client installer supports silent installations via the command line, so you could write a batch file that wraps this process with the settings you want, and then you can run it on all of your nodes. To see the command line options, run the installer from a command prompt with the --help flag.
Cheers,
- Ryan
Pulse auto-configure is the future 
However, until this arrives, I was thinking of it being a RC slave script.
With several slaves selected, you RC and a Form shows all the values which are writeable for the Slave Object and a drop-down list of all the slaves.
You select 1 slave and check-box enable which slave values you want transferring to the other slaves and click GO!
Nice little py slave script project for someone