SUMMARY
With the introduction of Teams login-based licenses, organisations have been granted more control over their licenses when using their software remotely. Setting up your Teams licenses for use on a render farm will require some configuration, this article goes through the steps necessary to configure Teams login-based licenses with a render farm.
For steps on how to set up a render farm please refer to the following article: Q100104: How to set up Nuke and Nuke licenses for a render farm
MORE INFORMATION
In order to license your render farm using your Teams license, you will first need to launch Nuke in interactive mode and log in to obtain the license tokens and preference file. Instructions on activating Nuke can be found here: Q100660: How to activate your teams login-based license
With Nuke now activated, navigate to the directory where these tokens and preference files are stored and copy the Tokens folder to a centrally accessible location such as a network drive. By default this folder can be found in the following directories:
Linux: $HOME/.local/share/Foundry/Tokens
Windows: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Foundry\Tokens
OSX: /Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Foundry/Tokens
After these token files have been moved to a central location, the following environment variable will need to be set on both the main machine and the render machines to point Nuke and the render machines to this new shared license token location:
“FOUNDRY_CLOUDLIC_READ_DIRS=/path/to/tokens”
Information on setting environment variables can be found here: Q100015: How To Set Environment Variables
PLEASE NOTE this environment variable sets the parent directory and will need the subdirectory /Foundry within it e.g:
C:\FarmTokens\Foundry\Tokens
With this environment variable now set, your remote render machines should now successfully be licensed using Teams login-based licensing.
FURTHER READING
More information on configuring your Nuke Frame Server or licenses is available in the following articles:
Q100459: Ports used by the Nuke Frame Server
Q100080: Troubleshooting Frame Server issues on external machines
Q100660: How to activate your teams login-based license
Q100104: How to set up Nuke and Nuke licenses for a render farm
For further information on configuring render farms and Frame Servers, please refer to the following learn page:
Rendering Using the Frame Server
We're sorry to hear that
Please tell us why