Schedule Pool Availability?

Deadline
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I am looking for a way I can have a group of nodes be unavailable during working hours for specific pools.

Here is my scenario

we use a pool of nodes to perform V-Ray Distributed rendering during the day then at night I would like those nodes to migrate to a “production” pool.
I cant have “production” renders blocking DR tasks during working hours though.

Any tips?

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Hello Troy,

The best way we have found to do this is to have a batch script run through task scheduler to flip the machines using deadlinecommand.exe from one pool or group to another. The command you are looking for is SetPoolsForSlave followed by the slaves you want to change, separated by commas, then a sapce and the ppol(s) you want to assign them to. You could have one set for Monday to friday morning to change to the workday pool, and then another set for monday to friday night to change them to the off hours pool. You can get more info on this by going to the Deadline bin folder in the command line UI and doing a deadlinecommand -help command, and piping it to a file. Let us know how that works for you.

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I will get our scripting guy to check this out when he gets time.

thanks for the tip!