Once you are set up, the process of rendering over the network is fully automatic so that every render you invoke from a client machine is automatically distributed over the network.
To network render a Maya scene within Maya on a master machine
You should see messages in the console window (or in the mental ray log file for batch render) telling you which slave machines were connected and which machine is being used to render particular tiles.
To network render a Maya scene with Maya from the command line on a master machine
Render -r mr sceneName.mb
To network render with a NVIDIA (.mi) scene with mental ray standalone on a master machine
Ensure that the .rayhosts file has the name of all mental ray network rendering slaves you wish to use (see Set up a master machine with mental ray standalone (method 1)).
ray myFile.mi
ray -verbose 5 myFile.mi
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