Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 1260

NOTE The state of a Server is kept on a per-job basis. If Restarts Failed Servers is turned on, the Manager keeps track of when a Server fails a particular job. The Manager regularly goes through the list of Servers for that job, checking for failures. If one is found, the Manager checks how long it has been since it failed. If the time elapsed is greater than the specified Seconds Between Retries, the Manager decreases the Number of Retries by one and resets the failed flag from the Server. If a Server fails repeatedly on a specific job (failures are monitored on a per-job basis), the failure count reaches the specified Number of Retries, and the Manager stops trying to restart that Server for that particular job. If, on the other hand, a Server restarts and completes a frame, it is flagged as active and resumes rendering until the job is complete. Direct Access To Jobs Path group Job paths can be useful when dealing with situations where it's not conducive to have jobs placed on the manager system. Such situations might be as follows: ■ You have a lack of drive space on the C: drive where Backburner is installed. Drive D: has plenty of space so you set up a folder called MyJobs where jobs will be placed when submitted. Enter a UNC path such as \\machinename\MyJobs. ■ You're running a large render farm that causes a lot of network traffic on the manager system that you use concurrently to build models. To alleviate the traffic, you set up a shared job folder, backburnerJobs for example, on a file server that is separate from the manager system. The UNC job path would be set to \\fileserver\backburnerJobs and jobs you submit will be placed on the file server. Use Jobs Path Turning on this switch allows you to define the location of jobs to be somewhere other than on the manager machine. This tells the render servers to get the job files from the new location, therefore minimizing the file I/O traffic on the manager. Win32 Path Enter the path where jobs are located into this field or click the Browse button to the right to search your system for the job location. Unix Path This field functions the same as the Win32 path except you can enter a Unix path structure. Manager and Server | 6515