[j_man]

Hi,

I work in a company with a lot of people, with more than one department using maxwell. The problem is that I can't specify which manager I want to connect to.
The other problem is that other people in the company can submit jobs to render servers that I need to use for rendering.

Can we please have a way to specify the manager address.

Thanks,

Josh.

[tom]

You can't have more than one manager in the same network. Servers wouldn't know which one to obey.

[j_man]

You can't have more than one manager in the same network. Servers wouldn't know which one to obey.

That's precisely the point Tom, if I could specify a manager address then it wouldn't be a problem. :O)

Josh.

[tom]

It's not about setting a custom manager IP, because every session of manager will try to communicate with the available servers and this is a conflict. You should avoid running more than one session of manager. Multiple sessions of manager won't be possible.

[j_man]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the feedback. Ok so what what if you have the ability to assign servers to the manager. Maxwell seems to be the only network rendering solution that has this limitation, and when you work in a large corporation with many work stations, departments, license's etc then this becomes a problem. At the moment it is more suited to a small office home office environment.
Am i the only person who thinks so ??

Josh.

[tom]

You don't need multiple managers because you have chance to make groups of servers and everybody can connect and use same manager with different groups of servers. But if you need privacy or want to make it independently, you can achieve this by your local network configuration.

[j_man]

but Tom,

How can I explain on a personal level to 1000 different architects that they're not supposed to use the rendering machines that appear in the manager dialog.
Can you imagine the conversation I would have if I come to work in the morning and find out that the jobs we sent last night haven't rendered because Joe Bloggs wanted to see what the sky rendered like in his home town.
Our maxwell manager is also the network license manager for max so i can't make this a private network, not to mention the difficulty i would have trying to explain to IT why we need our own network seperate to the rest of the company.
The only other solution I see is to limit the use of maxwell to the core visualisers team and not let anyone else use it, when i would like to let any of the architects that are interested to have a go.

I hope you can see why this makes sense!!

Thanks < :

Josh.

[tom]

Josh, I see the reason. We will consider supporting multiple independent subgroups in network. I guess a user defined ID per each manager and server sessions will be enough to separate them all like you need. Let's see...

[j_man]

that's great Tom!

I'll leave the nitty gritty to you guys but other flavours are:

backburner let's you specify a manager on the server,
VRay DR let's you add servers to the master,
with Mental Ray you add satellites to your master.

let me know what you think after you've chatted amoungst yourselves.

Cheers,

Josh.