This could be a misunderstanding to do with config but here goes…
I am attempting to setup power management for slaves via pulse.
I have created a group in power management config and enabled along with enabling the power management features. As per first screenshot.
I have closed and opened pulse, now that it is up and running the log suggests that my groups are created properly but they aren’t enabled? (see screenshot 2) I am sure they are enabled… what has I done wrong here…
So in looking at those screenshots, it looks like idle shutdown seems ok and is trying to shut down a long idle machine. The ones which say that the group is disabled are aspects of power management that are likely not enabled, machine restart and thermal shutdown. Can you verify if those two tabs in the power management window are disabled in those groups?
Ah I see it now…
So fired up the pulse on a windows machine and it is able to shutdown and startup the windows slaves, pulse was originally running on a Centos box. I assume this is a known limitation?
Hello Marty,
I’m sorry, I am not sure I understand, was it not working on CentOS? I am not aware of any issues on CentOS or Linux in relation to pulse. Can you send over the pulse log from that CentOS machine? Can you advise what the difference is you are seeing between Windows and CentOS? Thanks.
Hey D,
I have this working now, although it is was a machine config issue not a Deadline issue I will put details here, in the interests of documenting.
Pulse on Windows 7 was able to shutdown and start slaves using the power saving features.
Pulse on CentOS was unable to shutdown and start slaves using the power saving features, I could see it trying to in the log;
checking slave REND003
- waking up offline slave REND003 because it is required to render job “test - VRay DBR Job (3ds Max 2014)”
However nothing was happening…
I believe it was unable to resolve hostnames which it should be able to do via WINS server, which was due to WINS server not being configed quite correctly, so to fully config;
Add WINS /etc/samba/smb.conf
Alter line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to hosts: files wins dns
Thanks for your help D, sorry to say it was an issue on my end… 
No worries at all Marty, glad I could help.
