Worker Scheduling: Start/Stop Linux Service or Enable/Disable Worker

The Worker Scheduling should work as you as expected. The idle detection would not not work with Deadline is running as service, as listed limitation here: Worker Scheduling — Deadline 10.3.0.15 documentation

You can group the render nodes in Worker Scheduling and apply the Worker Scheduling on them.

Here is a Worker Scheduling documentation which would help: Worker Scheduling — Deadline 10.3.0.15 documentation