Script equivalent of remotecontrol <worker> RelaunchSlave

[jason_d_macleod]

Hi,

I’m looking for the scripting equivalent of this command-line action:

i want set "restart slaves after current task completion" in commandline

Hi, I’m not sure I understand your last reply. You want to execute this command on an already running Slave and/or remotely as well via DeadlineCommand? If so, the following should help. If not, please could you explain some more! 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…

We’re working around a hanging issue in the short term, and we are writing a utility to detect a certain hanging condition (mayaBatch plugin not exiting cleanly) and our current workaround is to restart the Worker on those nodes.

Also, is there a way to grab the last N lines of the Worker log through the scripting API?

This line in the Worker log:

WARNING - Waiting for unresponsive Render thread "Unloading Plugin…

is the tell-tale sign of a hanging Worker. We’d like to check Worker logs for this condition, and then send a “Restart Worker” command to all those Workers that match.

Thanks,

Jason