How to keep animator workstations OUT of the monitor

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I’m setting up Deadline and want only the renderfarm clients to show up in the monitor. I’d set up a couple of the animator workstations with Deadline, and they keep appearing in the Deadline Monitor (though not part of the group I set up with the renderfarm clients in it).

I’d like (and think the students would, as well) to only see the renderfarm clients showing up in the Deadline Monitor, to keep it simple - “when you send a shot to the renderfarm, it’s going to just these machines and not to workstations in the lab…” (Yes, I know that if the workstations aren’t part of the one defined group, they won’t be used in the render… it’s just messy.)

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That’ll be happening because the Worker application is running on those machines, if we can stop it from starting and running the workstations will be able to be deleted from the Monitor.

Simplest way (but somewhat slow) is to re-run the installer and uncheck ‘Launch Worker on Startup’.

Slightly more complicated way is to update the client configuration file to turn that Worker launch off. You can update one file and roll copies out to the other machines.

To do that:

  1. Find the file path for your operating system - Client Configuration — Deadline 10.3.1.4 documentation
  2. In that file set the following, and update any existing entries

LaunchSlaveAtStartup=False
KeepWorkerRunning=False

  1. With that done, kill the deadlineworker process or reboot the machine.
  2. The workstations should show the ‘offline’ state in the Monitor and now can be deleted.
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I’ll give that a try - thanks!

FWIW, I went with the “slightly more complicated way” solution.

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