Arnold License count

[CGEV]

HI, I have a question about license count.

We have different types of jobs that rely on arnold licenses.

Some are Maya+arnold, some are arnold standalone.

IT sounds like they appear in different sections in render licences in RR (Maya or Arnold section) and i don't feel they are counted together.

Is there a way that the count is global so if we use a maya arnold or a arnold stda the count is taken from the same total ?

Also, in terms of config in rr config /licences : is it ok to declare our "plugins" names under Arnold (like Arnold/arnoldCGEV) in the licence section or do we need to setup  RendererLicense= arnold   in every config.

currently they don't seem to be counted at all..

[RR, Schoenberger]

Hi

If you check the render license section in RR, then you can see that there is a global „Arnold“ render app/license at position 4.
There should not be any Maya-Arnold in the Render Lic tab in rrConfig.
That was changed a long time ago.
Afaik around the time Arnold was made available for other apps like Houdini.

E.g. your render config file 3D02__Maya2009__Arnold.cfg should contain the line

RendererLicense= /Arnold

If that does not exist, which version is stated in your config file?
And which RR version do you use?

> is it ok to declare our "plugins" names

Example config A:

Name= Maya

rendererName= arnoldCGEV

This would be the two licenses:

/Maya

/Maya/arnoldCGEV

As you can see you have two licenses that RR counts, the main app and the renderer/plugin.
RR checks counts both.

So you can tell RR that you have 100 Maya licenses, but only 50 arnoldCGEV license WITHIN Maya.

Example config B:

Name= Maya

rendererName= arnoldCGEV

RendererLicense= /Arnold

This overrides the renderer license, so this would be the two licenses:

/Maya

/Arnold

Same for Arnold Standalone, please see the file A80__Arnold_StdA_DeNoice.cfg
In rrConfig you can see Denoice as a seperate license count for the main app Arnold.
So you can tell RR that it should start only 10x Denoise jobs although you have 100x Arnold licenses.

 

PS: If there is a license Arnold/Arnold in rrConfig, that should be a bug.

Use the main Arnold license count only.

 

 

regards,
Holger Schönberger

 

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[RR, Schoenberger]

I have just seen by that I got a privat emessage in Google.
Please reply tot he rrKnights tavern instead.

>Hi we are still on old 7.0.34b version (hope to upgrade during august)
Note: You can slightly upgrade a few machines to test it with a new project.
And switch clients and submitters any time between old and new farm by changing a config+ env var or using rrWorkstationInstaller.

>If I understand well i should just put RendererLicense= /Arnold  in all configs that require arnold licence
>and just count the total in /Arnold root section in rr config /license?

Yes.

>do you think that syntax was already implemented in 7.0.34 ?

No, I am sorry.