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Chapter 48: Batch and Network Rendering
double-click it. Every computer that has Max installed on it also has a copy of the Monitor, so you can use
it from any machine on your network. The main screen is shown in Figure 48.13.
FIGURE 48.13
The Monitor makes managing a rendering farm quick and easy.

When the Monitor starts up, it automatically searches for the rendering manager and connects to it. (If you
have more than one manager running, you have to choose which one to connect to.)
The main screen is divided into three panes. The top-left pane shows the job queue, and their Priority and
Status, and the top-right pane shows information about whatever you have selected in the left pane. You
can use the tabs at the top of this pane to select the information that you want to view. The information tabs
include Job Summary, Frames Summary, Advanced (which shows the rendering parameters), Render
Elements, and Log.
The bottom pane lists all the available servers. Next to each server in the left pane is an icon that reflects its
current status. Green icons mean that the job or server is active and hard at work. Yellow means the server
is idle. Red means that something has gone wrong, and gray means that a job has been inactivated or that a
server is assigned to a job but is absent. When a job is complete, it can be deleted from the queue.

Jobs
If you choose a job in the top-left pane, the top-right pane displays information about the selected job. The
panels in the top-right pane are as follows:
l Job Summary: Lists some of the rendering options you chose before you submitted the job. Among
other things, the example in the figure shows that the job was rendered to 640 × 480 pixels.
l Frames Summary: Lists the details of rendering each frame in the animation, including the time
required to render and the server used.
l Advanced: Lists advanced settings from the Render Scene dialog box and gives limited informa-
tion about the scene itself.

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