Q100674: How to set up your Teams login-based render licenses with a render farm

Ryan Barnard

Updated : July 31, 2024 05:23

Created : June 22, 2023 06:37

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