Backburner

Backburner and Backburner Monitor updates.

Backburner

Backburner 2022.2, available when you install Flame Family products 2022.2 Update or Backburner 2022.2 standalone, contains the following improvements.

Configuration improvements:

• Backburner jobs are now created or deleted faster than in previous versions.

• Backburner no longer uses only the first network interface for server communication, but properly uses the order defined in network.cfg.

• You can now set a server IP address when using /opt/Autodesk/backburner/backburnerConfig.

• We've streamlined the contents of the Wiretap configuration files:

  • Removed legacy or irrelevant information from wiretap.cfg.

  • Copied wiretap.cfg and its sample file to: /opt/Autodesk/backburner/cfg.

  • Default values are now honored.

  • To support previous installations, there's a new symbolic link from /opt/Autodesk/backburner/Network to /opt/Autodesk/backburner/cfg.

Tools improvements:

• The wiretap_event_monitor tool now showcases the use of Wiretap API events. The Wiretap API has supported events for a while now, and your Wiretap tools could benefit from using events.

• BackburnerConfig script is now POSIX sh compliant.

Backburner Monitor

Backburner Monitor 2022.2 is installed whenever you install Flame Family 2022.2 Update products or Backburner 2022.2 standalone. It contains the following improvements.

Improved sorting in Jobs, Servers, Server Groups, and Archive tables:

• Sorting jobs is now faster.
• You can now click a column heading to cycle between ascending and descending sorts, or to apply no sorting at all.

Improved time information in the Jobs table:

• The Elapse column was used to display two types of information: the difference between start time and end time (or now) or the total process time. This could get confusing and was hard to sort. To fix this, the Elapse column is replaced with two new columns:
  • Elapsed Time: The difference between start and end time (or now if still running).
  • Total Time: The total process time. This is the sum of time spent by the renders nodes to complete the job.
• End Time column: Now estimates when an active job should complete.
• Remaining Time column: The remaining time estimate should now be more reliable.

The Elapsed Time and Total Time columns are not displayed by default. You can display them from the Jobs table contextual menu.