  | | | Satellite rendering debugging? | Satellite rendering debugging? 2004-06-10 - By Dan Yargici
Back Seriously? I have to go round setting up accounts for each user on each rendernode? That can't be right! I'm sure I never had to in the past....
Also, it seems the service is running on the my slaves.... :-/
Still investigating....
DAN -- -- Original Message -- -- From: Sandy Sutherland To: XSI@(protected) Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:51 PM Subject: Re: Satellite rendering debugging?
OK - just did some testing, and found that the satellite services were not running - they need to have login setups, using the same login as your XSI ( )runnable and working) installations are - you can set this up using the services manager under control panels - administrative tools!
Make sense???
Cheers
S.
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- Sandy Sutherland Digital Doodeller/Technical Director The Refinery (Cape) http://www.refinery.co.za mailto:sandy@(protected) (P) (+27 21) 480 3132 (F) (+27 21) 480 3101 -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- -- -- Original Message -- -- From: Dan Yargici To: XSI@(protected) Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:39 PM Subject: Re: Satellite rendering debugging?
Cheers for the help Sandy,
OK the way I have our system setup is this:
2 Workstations Win2k XSI4 Adv. 10 Renderboxes WinXP - Waiting for their lics, but I'm assuming the satellite tokens are taken from the Adv. lics. so for this test they don't need their own lics.
All machines share one setenv.bat file on the server to make administration a little easier for certain things (Moving the license server for example). In this Setenv.bat the .ray3hosts location is set to c:\Softimage and any other instances of ray*hosts files on all machines have been removed. In fact I think my machine is the only one with a .ray3hosts file out of all of them. In the .ray3hosts file I've declared all the slaves as IP adresses (to be safe) followed by :7007 the default port for satellite rendering. Now. When I type Telnet 192.0.0.42:7007 (correct syntax for a port? it doesn't throw any errors ..) for example I get:
Could not open a connection to host on port 23 : Connect failed
I think this might be some kind of Win2k -> WinXP telnet issue, mind. The machines can definately see each other...
Anyways, still no sooooper fast distributed fun and games.... :(
-- -- Original Message -- -- From: Sandy Sutherland To: XSI@(protected) Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:31 PM Subject: Re: Satellite rendering debugging?
Well as long as your 'other' machines can run XSI i.e. get licenses, then setup a rayhost file WITH port numbers - these you can get from your services file, or write them down when you install XSI on each machine - once you have done this, try and telnet into each machine using these port numbers - if telnet gives you errors, then you have the wrong port number, if it just dissapears, as with me - then bingo, you are onto a good start! Run XSI and start a render with verbose on, you should see the other machines returning percentage renders!!!
S.
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- Sandy Sutherland Digital Doodeller/Technical Director The Refinery (Cape) http://www.refinery.co.za mailto:sandy@(protected) (P) (+27 21) 480 3132 (F) (+27 21) 480 3101 -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- -- -- Original Message -- -- From: Dan Yargici To: XSI@(protected) Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:53 PM Subject: Satellite rendering debugging?
Anyone here got their satellite rendering working? I'm not a total newbie to this, and I managed to get distributed rendering working in earlier versions, but I'm having no luck today....
Anything I should be aware of before I delve deeper?
As we have no standalone MR lics it's hard to diagnose without being able to run ray3 -v to check the status of the slaves.... I noticed the Raysat .exe executable but after sifting through the -h output there appears to be no diagnostic switches to try... -v just returns MentalRay copyright info.... :-/
Thanks,
DAN
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859 (See http://iso-8859.ora-code.com)-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Seriously? I have to go round setting up accounts for each user on each rendernode? That can't be right! I'm sure I never had to in the past....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, it seems the service is running on the my slaves.... :-/</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Still investigating....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=sandy@(protected) href="mailto:sandy@(protected)">Sandy Sutherland</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected) href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:51 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Satellite rendering debugging?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK - just did some testing, and found that the satellite services were not running - they need to have login setups, using the same login as your XSI ()runnable and working) installations are - you can set this up using the services manager under control panels - administrative tools!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Make sense???</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----<BR>Sandy Sutherland Digital Doodeller/Technical Director<BR>The Refinery (Cape) <A href="http://www.refinery.co.za">http://www.refinery.co.za</A><BR><A href="mailto:sandy@(protected)">mailto:sandy@(protected)</A><BR>(P) ( +27 21) 480 3132 (F) (+27 21) 480 3101<BR>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:< /B> <A title=dan@(protected) href="mailto:dan@(protected)">Dan Yargici</A > </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected) href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:39 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Satellite rendering debugging?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers for the help Sandy,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK the way I have our system setup is this:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2 Workstations Win2k XSI4 Adv.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>10 Renderboxes WinXP - Waiting for their lics, but I'm assuming the satellite tokens are taken from the Adv. lics. so for this test they don't need their own lics.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All machines share one setenv.bat file on the server to make administration a little easier for certain things (Moving the license server for example). In this Setenv.bat the .ray3hosts location is set to c:\Softimage and any other instances of ray*hosts files on all machines have been removed. In fact I think my machine is the only one with a .ray3hosts file out of all of them. In the .ray3hosts file I've declared all the slaves as IP adresses (to be safe) followed by :7007 the default port for satellite rendering. Now. When I type Telnet 192.0.0.42:7007 (correct syntax for a port? it doesn't throw any errors..) for example I get:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>Could not open a connection to host on port 23 : Connect failed</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think this might be some kind of Win2k -> WinXP telnet issue, mind. The machines can definately see each other...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyways, still no sooooper fast distributed fun and games.... :(</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT : #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From: </B> <A title=sandy@(protected) href="mailto:sandy@(protected)">Sandy Sutherland</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected) href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:31 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Satellite rendering debugging?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well as long as your 'other' machines can run XSI i.e. get licenses, then setup a rayhost file WITH port numbers - these you can get from your services file, or write them down when you install XSI on each machine - once you have done this, try and telnet into each machine using these port numbers - if telnet gives you errors, then you have the wrong port number, if it just dissapears, as with me - then bingo, you are onto a good start! Run XSI and start a render with verbose on, you should see the other machines returning percentage renders!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----<BR>Sandy Sutherland Digital Doodeller/Technical Director<BR>The Refinery (Cape) <A href="http://www.refinery.co.za">http://www.refinery.co.za</A><BR><A href="mailto:sandy@(protected)">mailto:sandy@(protected)</A><BR>(P) (+27 21) 480 3132 (F) (+27 21) 480 3101<BR>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER -LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B >From:</B> <A title=dan@(protected) href="mailto:dan@(protected)">Dan Yargici</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected) href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:53 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Satellite rendering debugging?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone here got their satellite rendering working? I'm not a total newbie to this, and I managed to get distributed rendering working in earlier versions, but I'm having no luck today....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anything I should be aware of before I delve deeper?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As we have no standalone MR lics it's hard to diagnose without being able to run ray3 -v to check the status of the slaves.... I noticed the Raysat.exe executable but after sifting through the -h output there appears to be no diagnostic switches to try... -v just returns MentalRay copyright info.... :-/</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE ></BODY></HTML>
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