Possible to set slave to start disabled in local settings

Hi

Is there anyway to force a slave to start in disabled mode using the local settings?

I’m refining our cloud setup and the aim here is to have some GPU instances (for opening scenes, making changes etc remotely) that I can order/start from the deadline cloud panel, and when they start up I’d like them to appear in the monitor but not render any jobs. So far the only way I can think of is to set the Job Dequeuing Mode of the slave used to create the AMI for the GPU instances to Only Jobs Submitted From These Users and enter a user that would never submit a render job, or set it to Only Jobs Submitted From This Slave’s Machine, however I’m curious if there’s another way to achieve this that would mark the slave as disabled in the monitor.

Hope the question is clear!

David

Hello Dave,

Your best bet here would be to make an event script to trigger on OnSlaveStarted and which would mark the starting slave as disabled. Yu can find an example of such an event script at github.com/ThinkboxSoftware/Dea … veAutoconf