It is possible to integrate RC into a render manger.
I’ve had it working with Backburner in the past. and would probably work better with deadline.
Its not the most practical thing to do. I’m not doing it at the moment, as each node needs a CLI license.
it requires a fair bit of scripting to break the jobs up and submit them. Then you have more work at the end to bring them back together.
but dose help it process better with less pc resources and makes dealing with crashes a bit easier.
only worth the effort if its going to take more than a few days to process.
would be much better to have this all built in. even just for the CPU part of the processing.