Its not clear from the documentation whether the best practice is to uninstall the current slaves, and repository of 4.1 before installing 5.0, or install the new versions first, and get working before uninstalling 4.1.
Could anyone advise the best method to go from 4.1 to 5.0?
Many thanks,
It is recommended to Uninstall the Deadline 4.1 Client from all machines before installing Deadline 5.0.
The Deadline 5.0 repository should be installed separately to a new location (the 4.1 and 5.0 folder structures are NOT compatible).
Other than that, you should be ok.
Cool, Ill try it, thanks Bobo.
How do you not lose all the repository settings? I’ve installed a new repo but I want the same users etc.
B.
Everything in the following folders can be copied from a 4.1 repo to a 5.0 repo without any known problems:
.\limitGroups
.\settings
.\slaves
.\users
That should save you some time setting up the new repo.
Cheers,
copying over the users worked.
but none of the slaves or limit groups show up. and now I can’t launch slave on my local machine. (the only slave before the copy).
How do I fix this? What do I do now? I don’t want to have to spend a whole day transferring settings.
What happens when you try to launch the slave on your local machine? Is there an error message or anything else that might indicate what the problem is? If you “Undo” the copy, does the slave start up again?
I think I just enabled “remote mode” by accident. So thats fixed.
Are limit groups set to 0, used for blacklists, supposed to be red?
A new “feature” in 5.0 was for any limit group that is maxed out to be highlighted to make it obvious that a limit has been reached.
Unfortunately, this is the case for limits of 0. We’ll fix it in 5.1 so that limits of 0 aren’t highlighted.
Cheers,