DR Spawner as a Windows Service

[Syclone1]

1) my company have 4 render node in our server room, we never shut down this.
2) the V-Ray License is install on my pc, i always shut down this pc everyday after work, when get back to work the next day, i always need to log in and restart all the Vrayspawner.
3) Today morning after i read your instruction about "Restart Servers On Render End", i try not to log in to restart Vrayspawner and just simply click render with a blank 3ds max file using Distributed Rendering, ofcause i get the following message in vray-log file, see attached:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]22538[/ATTACH]
and then i turn on the "Restart Servers On Render End" it not work at first time, but everything back to normal on the second click. [Problem Solved]

svetlozar.draganov, thank you evey much with your patience help and once again sorry about my english. now only the VFB reset level not solve yet. cheers~

I have a similar setup at my work, where I have 4 render nodes in a separate server room except on the first node as Svetlozar mentioned I have the license manager and dongle on that box and with the setup I mentioned before with running the spawners and license server from the start-up folder I never shut down the servers and haven't had a single license related problem.

-dave

[jackieteh]

It is possible to set a Windows Schedule Task to restart specific service automatically at specific time.
There are a lot of tutorials over the Internet about how to set it up.

I have to say sorry that i am not quite understand this, what service is this?

and i will send you the slave file as soon as possible.

[jackieteh]

It would be a good idea to install the license server and the hardware key(the dongle) on one of the machines which are never shut down.

How to set this?

The problem come back, but it is not on my pc this time, my campany add 2 new staff, when they use their own pc to run DR, they will get the same problem as i did in previous, any solution?

[jackieteh]

As Syclone1 said, you can simply drop vrayspawner in the startup folder.
That's how I do it too. Simple and it works. I have much less issues than when I was running it as a service.

* vrayspawner in slave or workstation should i drop it into startup folder? how can i do that with window 7?
* my company slave open 24/7 and never shutdown, is this work with this method?

[jackieteh]

I have a similar setup at my work, where I have 4 render nodes in a separate server room except on the first node as Svetlozar mentioned I have the license manager and dongle on that box and with the setup I mentioned before with running the spawners and license server from the start-up folder I never shut down the servers and haven't had a single license related problem.

-dave

i think this is the way i want.

please guide me slowly, because i am not good in IT....

From what Svetlozar Draganov siad is i need a additional or new PC to install the license server and the hardware key(the dongle) [What this confuse me is i already have dongle on my workstation, is this mean i have pull out my workstation dongle and put it in the additional or new PC?]

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Yes you need to take to dongle from the workstation machine and plug into one of the machines which never gets shut down.
It is also necessary to install the V-Ray License Server on that machine and change the License Settings of each of the machines to look for license to the machine that holds the dongle.

Let us know if you need further assistance on that matter.