Now that you have submitted some jobs, you will want to monitor them in the Qube UI. In fact, there are now two Qube UIs - the original, now called Wrangler View (because it contains features that an administrator or render wrangler would use) and qubeArtistView, intended for artists to monitor and interact with their jobs.
If you have been working through the Qube 101 documentation in order, you will probably be running the Wrangler View, which has a white background and an "Administration" menu item across the top. In this section we are going to skim across the surface of the qubeArtistView UI, but most of the things covered here will also be true in the Wrangler View, though you may have to look in slightly different spots to locate them.
To launch the Artist View, do this:
- Windows: Click on the black and white Qube ArtistView desktop icon, or locate it in the Program Files\pfx\qube\bin folder (Note: not the "Program Files (x86)" folder)
- OS X: Click on the black and white Qube ArtistView desktop icon, or locate it in the Applications/pfx folder
- Linux: Type 'qubeArtistView' at the shell prompt (no quotes)
You should see this:
You should see the test jobs or other jobs that you have submitted. Notice that they are color coded - if you are lucky, they will all be blue, which is the color of a successfully completed job. Jobs which failed are colored red. The jobs also have a status, such as "complete", "failed" or "running." Running jobs are shown in green.
Let's have a look at some simple tasks you can do from this UI. First, click on one of your test jobs in the Jobs pane.
Notice that in the panel below, you can look at the Job Properties on one tab, and the Output on the next two tabs (Output Log & Error Log).
Let's retry one of your test jobs. You might want to do this if the job is working, but you have changed some of the input files and want to rerun it without changing any of the job's parameters. Just right-mouse on the job line in the Jobs panel, and choose Retry:
If you want to rerun the job, but change some of the submission parameters - maybe the frame range was wrong, or you want to send the output to a different location - then you want to resubmit. Again right-mouse on the job line in the Jobs panel, and choose Resubmit. In this case you will get a Qube submission dialog, and you can modify any of the parameters before hitting "Submit"
Finally, you may want to kill a job. If you have a long running job and you know the results are going to be wrong, or you want to stop it for some other reason, you can kill the job. This is also a right-mouse button menu entry.
There are other job-related tasks you can perform - for more details, see the User's Guide.