Start slave through a cronjob

Deadline
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Hello,

I am writing a bash script that will run in every artist workstation do some checks and if the machine can be on the farm then the script will start the slave.

If a user logs in the machine then the slave will stop.

Now we have deadline launcher running as a slave and doing

deadlinelauncher -slave returns that the launcher is already running.

We are using CentOs here. Any suggestions on how to start and stop slaves through a script?

Thank you

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Hello,

The simplist way is to use the deadline command:

/opt/Thinkbox/Deadline10/bin/deadlinecommand RemoteControl <slave/worker name> LaunchSlave

That way if its successful you will get a nice return:

w6404: Sent "LaunchSlave" command. Result: "Connection Accepted."

The remote command , is what the monitor is using and you can run things like StopSlave & ForceStopSlave

While we are not doing it via cron, we either use the command line or the rest api to stop and start slaves on the farm .

hope this helps
kym

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thank you this helps a lot

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Hello,

is there a way to stop the slave through command line as well? I feel like the API is not clear enough to guide you for which commands are available. Also deadlineslave -help only has a start slave command and not a stop slave

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The deadlinecommand is well documented, but massively huge in the stdout of a shell, i recommand saving it to a file:
/opt/Thinkbox/Deadline10/bin/deadlinecommand > /tmp/deadlinecmd_help.txt
if you search that file for RemoteControl, you will see all the options.
These line up with all the options that the monitor has.

hope this helps
kym

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You sir are a life saver, Thank you. This has everything i need