Licence priority

Deadline
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Hello.

I was wondering if it was possible to make a licence priority system.

Here’s my case :
I have 100 local machines + 40 distances machines, and only 100 deadline licence. (the 40’s are temporary)
During day, i only use 50 local machines + 40 distances machines.
And during night i want to use only my locals machines.
But at the moment, as my distances machines are ON they keep rendering at night.

Would it be possible de say : This pool/group/whatever is licencing priority to this one ?

Thanks !

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You could do “Slave Scheduling” rule for you remote slaves in “Power Management”?

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Or if you’re already using deadline 7.1.2 then its

docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … edule.html

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Yes i could, but my locals slave don’t all launch at same times (it’s artists workstations), and i don’t want to break renders by killing slave at a certain time.

I’m already using Schredul in the other way : when an artist cut slave to work, a distance Node can going render.

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I guess you could do an OnJobSubmitted (or OnJobStarted) event script that goes trough the list of slaves (your workstations) and checks if they are offline or not and shuts down those remote slaves as needed?

It wouldn’t exactly be the same as checking the licenses but perhaps more in the direction of what you wanted?