topic Re: Difference between canceling and terminating a CAS session? in SAS Viya

Difference between canceling and terminating a CAS session?

xiaoys0725 — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:41:58 GMT

what is the difference?

Re: Difference between canceling and terminating a CAS session?

alexal — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:01:03 GMT

Terminate a session only after having tried canceling a session. Using terminate might not release resources (for example, mapped memory and memory involving database connections, and so on).

Re: Difference between canceling and terminating a CAS session?

xiaoys0725 — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:14:27 GMT

Hello alexal,

If I want to stop the session in order to release the space occupied by sessions, will terminating sessions work?

And, is there a way to stop a session by REST api?

Re: Difference between canceling and terminating a CAS session?

alexal — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:22:00 GMT

@xiaoys0725,

Yes, that should work.

And, is there a way to stop a session by REST api?

/cas/sessions/terminate - terminates all user sessions by performing kill -9 on the session processes
/cas/sessions/{sessionId}/cancel - ends the specified session using a cancelSession action
/cas/sessions/{sessionId}/terminate - ends the specified session by performing a kill -9 on all of the session’s processes

CAS REST API