Shutdown rendernodes based on idle time

[Mikas]

Hi.
I'm looking how to send a shutdown command to rendernodes based on the idle time. Sa, I wanna leave render overnight, but don't want to have many machines idling when longer frames are finishing on other nodes, so I want to shutdown them earlier, before whole job is done. Any ideas?

[timurhai]

Hi.
You can try to use Wake-On-Lan mechanism for it:
http://cgru.info/afanasy/server#wake_on_lan

[Mikas]

How do I initialize that based on idle time? I can feel the answer is somewhere near, but cannot grasp it

[timurhai]

I never used wake-on-lan for something other.
But i definitely know, that some others do.
People use it to shut down remote farm when render has finished.
See http://cgru.info/afanasy/server#wake_on_lan Configuration section.
You can write custom commands and do what you want.

[Mikas]

OK, thanks for the pointer. Will try to dig in there.