Having trouble getting Balancer to do anything

Deadline
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I’m attempting to use balancer to handle my cloud nodes. Currently Balancer starts up…runs through its algorithm and doesn’t do anything even though there are items on the render queue I want it to handle.

My Cloud Providers/Region is set up with the basic configuration enabled and the Budget to a value of 4. I have a Group Mapping set up (I think i did that right). I can’t find anything else to mess with to kick start this badboy.

So is there like a magic word or checkbox I need to hit ? The documentation leaves me to believe that it should just see that jobs need to be done and spin up the appropriate instance.

Thanks all for help

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Nevermind, I think I figured it out. My jobs were submitted before I started balancer and set the group rules up. A new job submission triggered balancer to spin up an instance :mrgreen:

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Glad to hear you got it working. Do let us know if you have any feedback on Deadline’s cloud functionality.