I’ve got this issue where the Monitor and worker go down when a specific machine on the farm is offline. If any other machine is offline the farm is fine.
I know it’s a licence issue as we all have valid licences for our OS and DCCs.
The machine in question was the machine where Deadline was originally installed on but i’ve made sure that there’s not any specific admin settings that gives that worker node control over the farm.
the log shows it’s looking for the Mongo DB on 10.20.4.54 (gtech-cre-r4?) so likely it may still be using this as the database?
Yes that’s most likely it, is there a way to fix this? As i’m quite new to setting up Deadline. We have the repository which is on a shared location so I assumed by default the database would be in there?
there is a settings/connection.ini file in the repo, if you installed the DB on the server you can specify this server in this file, then the repo will use that server, and all machines connecting to that repo will use that DB also.
thank you for pointing me in the right direction, would you happen to know what the syntax should be for something like this? I know the location on where it should be directed but other than that I’m not sure how to go about this.
the hostname line, you should be able to modify this to point at the actual server running the database
(always safest to make a back up of any file first)
Okay thank you. I think I know what to do. Can the server be on a shared network drive? Or does it need to be locally saved?
The server has 2 main parts, a repository (which can be anywhere and can be moved) and a database, which should reside on a server.
It sounds like your setup fails as the database is running on a rendernode, you need this database running on a server which mets the minimum required specs. If you run it on a rendernode and the node hits 100% cpu the db will likely crash
Thanks for that. I just had a chat with the offices IT department and they’ll look into it. Am i right in assuming that the database folder just holds all the certs and logs whereas the repository holds the 3D files and the other files which are more relevant to the CG rendering process?
no, the database runs a database which organises and communciates the data
the repository holds the application info, scripts etc.
The jobs can be copied to the repo (submit file with job) or just referenced from where they are already saved
Just an update on this, yesterday the IT guys set up a virtual machine and after much troublesome headaches we were able to successfully put the server on that machine and now when the original machine goes down, the whole farm doesn’t. I think moving the server also may have fixed some other minor issues i was having too.
