Slave scheduling and Vray DR Spawner

Deadline
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Hi,

Is it possible for the slaves to run a script/command when they come online/offline with the scheduler?

We have a number of workstations that start the slaves at 7pm, and turn off at 8am so the artist can use it without slowdown. The only problem is that the Vray DR spawner is still active as it is controlled independantly.

Is it possible to get this DR service to start and stop when the slave comes on/offline with the scheduling?

Thanks.

-Jaime

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Sure. You would need to write an event plugin which hooks into a couple of the Slave centric callbacks:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … ing-events

By chance, I just finished writing this week’s Deadline Developer Blog, which will be published in a few hours time here, which goes into depth on Deadline’s event plugins: deadline.thinkboxsoftware.com/feature-blog/

I don’t cover Slave based event plugins specifically, but it would be a good read combined with our docs to get you up to speed with writing this yourself: docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … ugins.html

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Thanks for that Mike, I’ll check it out.