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Job Name—Provides a field for you to name the job
(mandator y). The + button b eside the field adds
incremental numbering (Job01, Job02, and so on).
Note: The software does not let you submit multiple
jobs with the same name.
Description—Enter an optional description of the
job.
Enter Subnet M ask/Enter Manager Name or IP
Address group
Enter M anager Name or IP Address—When
Automatic Search is turned off, enter the name of
the Network Manager (page 3 –978) machine or its
IP address.
Enter Subnet M ask—When Automatic Search is
on, enter a subnet mask for automatic search.
For information on using subnet masks, see
C
onfiguring Backburner S erver.
Connect/Di sconnect—Connects to the network
Manager.Thesoftwarepreservestheconnection
as a global sett ing so that you need to change
it only when you want to specify an alternative
Manager. If connected to the network manager,
click Disconnect to disconnect from the current
manager so you can cho ose a different manager.
Automatic Sea rch—Determines whether the
software connects to a specific manager or
searches for one using a subnet mask when you
click Connect. When off, the software attempts to
connect to the m anager you specify in this g roup.
When on, it searches the network for a m anager
using the specified subnet mask.
Refresh—Up dates the Server and Job lists.
By default, all servers are used for the job. When
the Options group > Use All Servers check box is
turned off, you can choose one or more servers to
render the job. If rendering to a multiple-frame
file format, such as an AVI or MOV file, you can
choose only one server.
Priority group
Prior it y—Specifies a priority ranking for the job.
The lower this setting , the higher the job priorit y.
Default=50.
For example, consider a job with priority 1 (Job
B) that is submitted to a network manager that’s
already rendering a job with priority 2 (Job A).
Because Job B has a higher priority, Job A w ill be
suspended and Job B rendered. When Job B is
finished, the software will resume rendering Job A.
Iftwoormorejobshavethesamepriority,they’re
executed in order of submission.
Critica l—Sends the job to the head of the queue,
preempting the existing jobs. If a server is
currently rendering and a critical job is sent to the
queue, the server will stop rendering its current job
and begin rendering the new, cr it ical job. When
finished with the critical job, the server returns to
the next job it has been assign ed in the queue.
Dependencies—Opens the Job Dependencies dialog
(page 3–196),whichyoucanusetospecifyexisting