Pulse script

[cadpeople]

Hi,

I know that the documentation says:

Web service scripts allow you to retrieve cached data from Pulse and display them in any way you see fit.

But is there any way to be able to access/use the power management features through the pulse web script, I would like to be able to use “wake on lan”

[rrussell]

Hey Jacob,

Power Management itself isn’t exposed to the API, but you can use deadlinecommand’s Remote Control commands by using the ExecuteCommand API call:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … _Utilities

Here’s the usage for deadlinecommand’s -RemoteControl command:

RemoteControl Send the remote command to the Deadline Launcher
running on the specified machine(s)
[Machine Name(s)] The machine name, or a list of machine names
separated by commas.
[Remote Command] The remote command. The available commands are
StopLauncher, LaunchMonitor,
LaunchNetworkConfig, LaunchJobMonitor,
LaunchSlave, LaunchAllSlaves, LaunchNewSlave,
RemoveSlave, LaunchSlaveDelay, StopSlave,
RelaunchSlave, ForceStopSlave,
ForceRelaunchSlave, OnLastTaskComplete,
LaunchPulse, StopPulse, RestartPulse,
StopMonitor, StopJobMonitor, StopConfig,
RestartMachine, StartMachine, ShutdownMachine,
Execute, ExecuteNoWait
[Argument] The argument for LaunchSlave, LaunchNewSlave,
and RemoveSlave is the name of the Slave. The
argument for Execute and ExecuteNoWait is the
command to execute. Valid arguments for
OnLastTaskComplete are Continue, StopSlave,
RestartSlave, ShutdownMachine, RestartMachine,
CheckForTasks, CancelTask, and
ClearFailureCache.

So to use WOL to start the slave machine, you could run this:

deadlinecommand.exe -RemoteControl slave001,slave002,slave003 StartMachine

To use this in a script with ExecuteCommand, you would do something like this:

from Deadline.Scripting import *
...
ClientUtils.ExecuteCommand( ("-RemoteControl", "slave001,slave002,slave003", "StartMachine") )

Hope this helps!

• Ryan