In NetworkComputer, as soon as a vovslave starts up, the vovserver can send jobs to it. At times, you may want to prevent this from happening, for example when adding new machines.
To do so, perform the following steps:
For example:
-reserve /nobody/2w
This would reserve for user, nobody, for two weeks. This is a common idiom to reserve for a non-existent user in the slaves.tcl file.% nc cmd vovslavemgr reserve [reserve-options]
For example:
% nc cmd vovslavemgr reserve -user swregr -duration 365d