Solution for monitoring/managing vrspawner on nodes?

[DPS]

Any ideas, so we can see if any are flatlining, or if we need a one button solution to launch/kill spawners across the farm.

We tried refamo - our other office tested it but had some issues - not sure of the extent of these.

[tashko.zashev]

There are different tools and approaches to check the spawner status/version or start/stop the service.
You can use our DR check tool to get the status information of the spawner on a certain machine or the check its V-Ray version.
In order to control the service status you may need to use additional software like Deadline or Psexec.exe for an example. There is a discussions about that in this thread :
http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...awner+deadline

[Morne]

Well I wrote a small script for restarting individual nodes, or all of them at the same time. It doesn't monitor anything, but I knew something was up with stills when I saw stuck buckets or buckets rendering wrong. Even though in DR settings you already have "Restart servers on render end", I find that I still had to use my script from time to time, sometimes never, sometimes several times on the same job.

Give it a go and modify as you need.
Change the following:
domain (name of your internal network domain)
node1,2,3 etc (name of node(s))
adminuser (admin username for the node)
adminpass (admin password for the node)

In my case, I have 1 admin username for everything.

Just add to the script as needed, although if you have 100 nodes, you may be copying and pasting a LOT!
Here's a setup for 3 nodes:
RenderSlaveRestart.zip

The script restarts the entire node (reboot)
I then have autologon to each node and the spawner in startup