Is there a way to check the status of your DR boxes, something similar to the backburner manager? It would be nice to know that the spawner was up and running on ~25 machines without have to manually check or send out a render.

There is - it is basic but does the job. http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/misc/ vraydr_check.exe Trimmed version of my batchfile: @echo off :start echo . echo . echo ________________________________________________ echo . echo X79B C:\Apps\vraydr_check.exe -host=X79B -p…

Hmmm, I think the new VRAY 3.1 broke this tool… gives a protocol error now.

Is it confirmed that vraydr_check doesnt work anymore with vray 3.1 ? That would be very unfortunate !

I can confirm that vraydr_check tool does not work with 3.1. I am going to report it into our system and I’ll update this thread once the tool is updated.

Any update on this lovely little tool? Super handy to check the farm is up to date…

I ´m controlling and monitoring my Renderslaves with Refamo. Pretty much the best 100eur you can spend for a small renderfarm. You can batch start, kill, restart any process on the slave machines including VraySpawner. You can monitor CPU, Memory, HDD, Network traffic etc. Also you can use it as saf…

Hi i have download vraydr_check tool, after i extract the zip file, and double click on vraydr_check.exe, it doesn’t open, may i know how to use it step by step, thank you very much. Regards, Jackie

It is a command line tool which means it doesn’t have UI and you have to start it via Command Prompt. There is a readme.txt file which comes with the archive, open it and check the Usage section. Let us know if you have any questions.

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VelvetElvis December 12, 2014, 9:42pm 3

Awesome, thanks!

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