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. Normally there is no need to configure the Backburner Manager. Otherwise these changes will be overwritten by the running instance of Backburner Manager. opt/Autodesk/backburner/Network/backburnerConfig to configure it.īackburner Manager must be stopped before making any changes to theīackburner.xml configuration file. Once the local Backburner Manager is stopped, use If a workstation is using a remote Backburner, then disable the local instance on the workstation:
Only one Backburner Manager should run on the network at once.
By default, the Backburner Server installed on the workstation communicates with the locally-installed Backburner Manager, but a centralized Manager installed on another system in the network can be used. It allows multiple jobs, such as I/O operations, grading, composites, and animation scenes, to be processed by many computers on the same network.īackburner Server and Backburner Manager are installed and are set to run automatically when the workstation starts. Backburner is a queue manager for background processing and distributed network processing.
