Hey guys, I’ve been wondering the best method to view all tasks completed by a particular slave. For example, I have a couple machines that have been rendering ugly frames, but I think they have been fixed now by our IT dept. In order to know for sure, it would be great to be able to right-click on a slave and “view completed tasks” or something similar to that. Right now, I think my only option is to go through each job until I find one that rendered a frame on the specific machine.
One method I thought would have worked is to “view slave reports,” but that is only showing me the failures.
The slaves do not keep any history of what they’ve previously rendered, so unfortunately there really isn’t a way to pull the information you’re looking for. We only keep the error reports for slaves so that you can review the errors generated by a specific slave, but we do have a wishlist item to store the logs from successful frames for slaves. However, I’m sure we’ll cycle these just like we do the error reports (we only keep the last 256 error reports for a slave to save on disk space).
One thing you could try is adding a post-task script to jobs that you want to have a history. This script would record the slave name, job name, and task/frames (output paths) processed to a database or log file. This would provide a way to do historical searches to correlate bad frames with the slaves.