Hi all I am trying to create a simple manual job submission and for the most part things seems straight forward, however, for the life of me I cant figure out how to include an auxiliary file?
I am running something like:
deadlinecommand.exe -SubmitCommandLineJob -arguments “-start:0 -end:10 -width:480 -height:320 \path\scene.max”
I would like to pass \path\scene.max as an auxiliary file as the render farm is on a remote server and I would like copy the file over with the job. In the documentation it states: “<AUXFILE#>” will be replaced by the auxiliary file # submitted with the job. For example, will add the file path to the first auxiliary file submitted with the job to the arguments string.
So it seems that I should be able to add auxiliary files to the job call.
But I can’t seem to figure out how to submit the auxiliary file with the job? Any ideas?
I think there’s a disconnect between the docs page you’re looking at, and how that command works. The help file from Deadline command (10.2.0.9) doesn’t mention aux files at all:
SubmitCommandLineJob <executable <Value>> [<arguments <Value>>] <frames <Value>> [<chunksize <Value>> <pool <Value>> <group <Value>> <priority <Value>> <name <Value>> <department <Value>> <initialstatus <Value>> <prop <Key=Value>>]
Submits a generic command line job to Deadline. The <STARTFRAME> and
<ENDFRAME> strings in the command line arguments will be replaced with the
actual start and end frame for each task. The <QUOTE> string in the command
line arguments will be replaced with a '"' character.
executable The command line executable.
arguments Optional. The command line arguments.
frames The frame range to render.
chunksize Optional. The task chunk size.
pool Optional. The pool the job belongs to.
group Optional. The group the job belongs to.
priority Optional. The job priority (0 is the lowest).
name Optional. The job name.
department Optional. The job department.
initialstatus Optional. The job's initial state
(Active/Suspended).
prop Optional. Extra submission properties in the
form Key=Value.
I’ll look more into that myself - in the mean time I’d use the manual job submission steps to build files for automatic submission.
To get examples of what those job files look like, submit a job as you’d like to see it with the regular submitter then double click the newly created job and go to ‘submission params’ to see the two files that were generated by the submitter to create the job.