Microsoft thing for restarting spawners

[tricky]

I saw a post a few days ago where somebody was using a download from Microsoft to help restart spawners on the network from your workstation. Any ideas where this thread is? I've tried saerching but so far, no luck...

[instinct]

this i assume :
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...hlight=pstools

search term would be pstools (wich is the ms download)

Regards,
Thorsten

[tricky]

Mmm. I'm pretty sure it wasn't PSTools. I could be wrong, but I think I tried that years ago and didn't have too much success.

[Clifton Santiago]

I use psservice.exe, which I think is included in PStools. Works great. You just need to write a little bin file to tell it what to do. I posted it in a previous thread somewhere...

[tricky]

will look into it

[Clifton Santiago]

Here it is from a previous post:

We use this utility:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897542.aspx

And then run a .bat file that looks like this, just substituting the proper node names and admin username and passord:

echo off

C:\folder\psservice \\NODE01 -u username -p password start "VRaySpawner 90"
C:\folder\psservice \\NODE02 -u username -p password start "VRaySpawner 90"
C:\folder\psservice \\NODE03 -u username -p password start "VRaySpawner 90"

...etc. to include all nodes

[tricky]

I'm running this bat file (which is located in the pstools folder on my master machine):

pskill -t \\NODE_01 -u Username -p Password vrayspawner2009.exe
pskill -t \\NODE_02 -u Username -p Password vrayspawner2009.exe
pskill -t \\NODE_03 -u Username -p Password vrayspawner2009.exe
pskill -t \\NODE_04 -u Username -p Password vrayspawner2009.exe
pskill -t \\NODE_05 -u Username -p Password vrayspawner2009.exe
psexec \\NODE_01 -u Username -p Password -d -i "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\vrayspawner2009.exe"
psexec \\NODE_02 -u Username -p Password -d -i "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\vrayspawner2009.exe"
psexec \\NODE_03 -u Username -p Password -d -i "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\vrayspawner2009.exe"
psexec \\NODE_04 -u Username -p Password -d -i "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\vrayspawner2009.exe"
psexec \\NODE_05 -u Username -p Password -d -i "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\vrayspawner2009.exe"

But all I keep getting is "Couldn't access NODE_01. The network path was not found. Make sure that the default admin$ share is enabled on NODE_01"

Any ideas?

[tricky]

OK, disabled the firewall on one of the render machines, and now it does kill the task, but doesn't restart it.

[Clifton Santiago]

Here is the actual bat file, where 3dsmax is username, and Discreet3d is the password. We wrote it when we were transitioning between Max 8 and 2008:

C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR01 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d stop "VRaySpawner 60"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR01 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d start "VRaySpawner 90"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR02 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d stop "VRaySpawner 60"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR02 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d start "VRaySpawner 90"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR03 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d stop "VRaySpawner 60"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR03 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d start "VRaySpawner 90"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR04 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d stop "VRaySpawner 60"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR04 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d start "VRaySpawner 90"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR05 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d stop "VRaySpawner 60"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR05 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d start "VRaySpawner 90"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR06 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d stop "VRaySpawner 60"
C:\SwitchDR\psservice \\SLDNRNDR06 -u 3dsmax -p Discreet3d start "VRaySpawner 90"

I think you have to enable VraySpawner as service first, and then use the script to turn it on.

[tricky]

error is:
No Process is on the Other End of the Pipe

[Clifton Santiago]

I don't know the error. I can email you the psservice.exe that we use. It is older than what is posted on the Microsoft site, and predates MS purchase of it. However I don't know if it will work any differently. PM me your email if you want it.

[tricky]

Thanks for that. However, we never run spawner as a service as I am sure I have read it can lead to many DR problems. Do you not find this?

[Clifton Santiago]

None at all. I use DR all the time.