thinkboxsoftware/deadline

Open-source scripts and components for the Deadline queue manager

Deadline

Thinkbox Software's GitHub repository for the Deadline compute management solution.

Here is what you will find in the top-level folders:

• Custom: Custom plugins for Deadline.
• DevOps: Using Deadline with DevOps tools like Docker and Vagrant.
• Examples: How-To examples for things like DeadlineCommand, Events, REST API, and so forth.
• Installation: Scripts for installing Deadline and migrating between Deadline versions.
• Tools: A potpourri of useful scripts for a variety of topics.

deadline's Issues

Plugin: SampleSimplePlugin link broken in Readme.txt

Hi,

This link is broken and points to a 404 page in the documentation:

Deadline/Custom/plugins/SampleSimplePlugin/Readme.txt

Line 23 in 15c583b

http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-6-scriptpluginsdk/

Redirected to -> https://www.awsthinkbox.com/products/deadline/6.2/1_user%20manual/index.html

Deadline installation corrupt from version 10.1.13.2 when dbauth=true with user and password

Before 10.1.13.2 version (being the last one 100% tested by us 10.1.9.2), the installation of a new repository with the flags --dbauth true --dbuser --dbpassword worked correctly. Since that version, the same install script does not work. The repository installs, but neither the deadline workers nor the deadline pulse can connect to it afterwards. Their logs state that "db auth has been configured, but no password has been provided". When checking the "connection.ini" file in the settings folder of the Deadline Repository, both the fields "Username" and "PasswordHash" are empty! It seems the installer is not filling in those fields properly when installation is finished. This problem does not happen if updating an existing 10.1.9.1 into a newer version, as the connection.ini is kept during the installation.
So, summarizing:

• In a mongo db setup with user/password enabled in the database, if deadline repository (10.1.13.2+) is installed over an existing (previous) installation, it works properly
• In the same setup (mongo with auth enabled database), if the deadline repository is configured in a clean directory, the connection.ini does not get filled with the proper auth parameters, and then no one can connect to deadline. As there is no way to reconfigure the database connection, a full install in a previous version is needed to recover the password hash.

Install script should be reviewed so that connection.ini is properly filled in a clean install.

Authenticated WebService (REST API) not working in 10.1.20.3

When we configure the webservice as did in previous versions (default install but port changed to 8082), it works properly whenever user authentication is NOT enabled (Deadline Web Service 10.1 [v10.1.20.3 Release (1a0d97d0f)] is shown). However, when we enable "require authentication" under repository options and reboot the webservice, we always get a 401 unauthorized, and no prompt for user/password is shown, even if a deadline user with a password exist in the system. This behavior might happen since previous versions.

Suggestion for script to automatically download latest version / specific version

I had a suggestion - It would be really helpful if a script were available to download the latest version of the deadline installer / or be able to set a specific version to download for maintaining consistency in infrastructure that is provisioned in an automated fashion.

Upgrade Examples for Deadline 8.0

We changed the need for dlinit files in the plugins as well as what the param property is for enabling/disabling plugins. We should update all of the events and plugins to support the new format.

• Change the param files to the new format
• Create note in the repo's README file to explain the change to 8.0
• Tag releases for the versions of Deadline they are compatible with

EC2 instance doesn't inherit groups if launched with spot event plugin json template

currently when I use this with the spot fleet plugin, the groups don't seem to pickup from the json definition of the spot fleet / the tags for the deadlinegroup on the ec2 instance.

It would be great if this plugin was able to determine if it is running as an ec2 instance VS running out of AWS and query the tags for the groups it is meant to inherit in the event that it is an EC2 instance.

CreatePreviewJobFromTasks.py - PythonNetException: DeadlineSubmissionException : could not find Auxiliary submission file: 6f03647cc5d01164.json

Hello! I'm trying to use this awesome script, but keep getting the error:
PythonNetException: DeadlineSubmissionException : could not find Auxiliary submission file: 6f03647cc5d01164.json

This doesn't make sense to me because the Aux files are very much there, is there something that needs to be added to the script for it to correctly find the Aux file?
Additionally, I would like to have it consider job dependencies, but that's a later issue.

Repository Version: 10.1.12.1 (f21639b8f)
Integration Version: 10.1.12.1 (f21639b8f)
3PL Settings Version: 27/11/2020

Thanks in advance!

Context:
https://github.com/ThinkboxSoftware/Deadline/blob/master/Custom/scripts/Tasks/CreatePreviewJobFromTasks.py

Recommended improvements to EventScript.py

Referring to https://github.com/ThinkboxSoftware/Deadline/tree/master/Custom/events/EventScript

@tokejepsen Recommendations for improvements: After retrieving the script's path from the ExtraInfo, run a path mapping on it to convert it to the Slave's current platform (so that the script works cross-platform). After doing the path mapping, confirm that the script file is reachable from the Slave before calling execfile().