Engine administration

An engine is a definition of what kind of work should be performed when executing a process at a client.

By default, file transfers utilise the hidden built in "builtin-accsyn-transfer" engine. There is also the "builtin-accsyn-utility" engine that is used for internal tasks such as compressing a web delivery ZIP.

The accsyn compute/render farm feature allows for creating additional engines to perform queued execution of long running resource (CPU/GPU) intensive tasks.

To create a new egine, click NEW ENGINE button in upper right corner.

• Code; Give a name for the engine, it must be unique within the workspace and contain letters a-zA-Z0-9_.-  with a maximum length of 32 chars.

• Enable; Define if engine should be created enabled or disabled.

• Python script; Input/paste the engine Python script here, it will validated (Python 3.10). 

• Description; (Optional) Give the engine a description, for display only.

• Vendor; (Optional) The company/organisation/person providing the script.

• Color; (optional) Give the engine a unique color, for display only.

Click Create & Publish when you are ready, or Save Draft if you want to create the engine but not publish it yet.

When created, you can take the following actions:

• Assign engine to one or more lanes, go to https://accsyn.io/admin/servers.

To edit an engine, click on it's pen button in the list.

Script

Edit the script and click either Save Draft to continue edit later, or Update & Publish.

Attributes

• Code; The name of the engine, click to edit.

• Status; The status of the engine.

• Description; Set the optional description engine should have.

• Vendor; Update the vendor.

• Color; Update the color.

Settings

Engines currently have no settings.

Metadata

Define metadata for this engine, will be appended to upstream metadata and provided to jobs with Workflows - API calls, engine execution, hooks execution, and so on. 

To delete an engine, click the red trashcan button on the engine in the listing.

NOTES: 

• No job(s) using engine can be active, has to be aborted.

• Engine will be de-assigned from lane clients.

• This cannot be undone.