Detect connected slaves

[lcrivell]

If I perform a distributed render, all configured slaves will be used.
If, on the slave machine, I stop the slave service, the server will detect this and not use the slave anymore.
However if I reconnect the slave later on, it would be great if the server detects it and automatically starts to re-use it.

Thanks for taking this into account !

[t.petrov]

This should be already the case.

When a V-ray slave server start it broadcasts a message to all machines on the network.
If there is already a DR rendering running then this new slave will attach to the rendering and it will be used for DR.

What version of V-Ray are you running? What OS?
Are you using a firewall (if might block this broadcast message).

[lcrivell]

Hi,
This is not what I am seeing on my environment. MacOS, Maya 2014, VRay 3 Beta.
When no slave is connected, I get a message in the script editor, it stays as Rendering, and when I start the slave, the it remains as Rendering and nothing happens. I need to cancel the render and restart it, and then it works.

[t.petrov]

Can you send a message to our support at support@chaosgroup.com. They should be able to help you.

[Svetlozar Draganov]

We can confirm that the broadcasting on MAC doesn't work.
The workstation machine prints the following error and the slave machine never joins to the frame being rendered.
[2014/Jun/2|12:44:12] V-Ray warning: Render host iMac-2 (*.*.*.*:20207) is not responding