I think I understand, but wanted to check…is there a way to change the Slave name to something different to the Machine name? After reading some of the forum posts from a while ago it seems like this was locked (post Deadline 5) to the Machine name to stop two nodes picking up the same job. Is there a way around this in Deadline 9 or 10? just looking for a way to name the Slaves in a more logical way without having to rename the windows machine name.
Unfortunately not. The attempt with multiple Slaves did cause a lot of problems as we use the Slave name as the unique identifier and hit… difficult problems with name collisions with system imaging.
You’ll have to play with the OS-level name. Details for Linux and details for Windows