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Autodesk® Backburner™ is a. You need to be an Autodesk Subscription customer to download this App. For detail, visit the Autodesk Subscription Center. Autodesk® Backburner™ can be used with Autodesk products such as, Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Flame, Flare, Flame Assist or Lustre to manage your render jobs and render nodes while network rendering. Autodesk Backburner™ is a background rendering network system.

Introduction Backburner Manager receives jobs from the clients, and then distributes the work as jobs to the render nodes on the network. Backburner Manager functionality • Receiving processing requests from client applications. • Receiving status reports as tasks are completed on the servers. • Handling requests from the Backburner Monitors. • Updating its database with all transactions. Ensure only one Backburner Manager is running on the background processing network at any given time. Otherwise, jobs submitted to the network may not be processed.

Linux setup Normally, there should be no need to configure the Backburner Manager. The most common changes—such as specifying the default mail server through which Backburner sends job-related email specifications—can also be made via the Backburner Web Monitor. To start and configure Backburner Manager: • In a terminal, as root: stop the Backburner Manager service: /etc/init.d/backburner stop. The Backburner Manager service on the workstation is stopped, if it was running previously.

If it was not running previously, a “Failed” error message is displayed. If you are starting Backburner Manager for the first time, configure the Manager before starting it. Otherwise, start the Manager. • The Backburner configuration file is at /usr/discreet/backburner/Network/backburner.xml • Start Backburner Manager: /etc/init.d/backburner start. All Backburner Manager events are recorded in log files in the directory /usr/discreet/backburner/Network/backburner.log. You can use the tail command to view the contents of this log. Windows setup Backburner Manager is configured in its General Properties dialog.

To install Backburner on a Windows workstation: • As an administrator, run backburner.exe. The Backburner installation wizard appears. • If there is an earlier version of Backburner on the system, you are prompted to uninstall it. • Follow the prompts to install Backburner on the workstation. It is recommended that you install Backburner components in the same destination folders on all machines.

To start and configure the Backburner Manager: • From the Start menu, choose Programs, Autodesk, Backburner, and then Manager. The first time you start the application, the General Properties dialog appears.

• Configure the manager as desired. For most purposes the default settings should suffice. • Click OK to start the application. The configuration settings are written to the Backburner configuration file, for example, C: Documents and Settings Local Settings Application Data backburner backburner.xml. System32 Drivers Pci Sys Missing Or Corrupt. To restore the default settings, delete backburner.xml. Note that this file contains the configuration settings for all Backburner components installed on the same machine.