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feature request - Advanced Remote command functions

Deprecated Deadline 6 Beta Discussion
#1

Ok, this might be bigger wish, but i wonder what you guys think of it. Since Deadline allready has pretty good options for executing commands remotely i was wondering if this subject could extended a little more.
Primarily there are two things i would really like to have in the Monitor:

  1. A list of remote commands that i can define on my one, group them in categories and share them with other users, like…

    Deadline
    -> Start Slave
    -> Stop Slave
    -> Start Pulse
    -> …
    Power
    -> Shutdown Machine
    -> Start Machine
    Vray
    -> Start Vray Spawner
    -> Stop Vray spawner
    -> …
    installers
    -> …

(i know some of them like Deadline and Power commands are allready there but for the rest there is only the option to use the command line tool).

  1. A posibility to see all the runnign processes started with those commands on each single machine and the user who have started them. This way you can see for example
    that render 1-5 is offline because User x uses them for distributed rendering.

I don’t know if all of this could be integrated somehow into the Slaves Panel or if it would be even worth to devote on own window to this topic.

#2

You could write slave right-click scripts to do some of these things, like start/stop the vray spawner. The script menus can be configured and grouped in the Repository Options, and you can use User Group Permissions to control who has access to those scripts.

There are API commands to execute remote commands, so you could just wrap those in the scripts. You could even have those scripts write to some global log when they are executed, so you can see who ran what and when.

Does that sound like something that would work for you?

#3

wow ok, didn’t know that. I will definitelly try it out, thanks!

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