topic Re: Alert or notification for scheduled jobs in Administration and Deployment

Alert or notification for scheduled jobs

Riana — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:35:47 GMT

Hi,

I'm working with scheduling jobs in SMC. I want to send a mail or receive an alert for the failed job and was wondering if there is such feutures for scheduled jobs(in SMC)? Or should I write a separate sas program for scheduled jobs to send a mail?

I read some information that there is such alert for SAS work directory and server log file.

Re: Alert or notification for scheduled jobs

Alessandro — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:02:54 GMT

On SMC you can scheduler you SAS Jobs, but you have no resource for controlling the jobs behavior.

You'll to use a SAS program to send e-mails depending the job's state

Re: Alert or notification for scheduled jobs

rkbright — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:36:34 GMT

Hi Riana -

Have you considered scheduling on the OS and integrating the organization's smtp server for notifications? You can do this easily on Linux OS by editing your contab entry (using the sas install account).

su to SAS account:

~ sudo su -l sas

open in VI:

~ crontab -e

edit file:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=sas
# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |

Then create an alias in etc/aliases for the distro list:

sasadmins: email1@address.com,email2@address.com, etc...

Then run newaliases to update the database.

Hope this helps

Re: Alert or notification for scheduled jobs

SASKiwi — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 20:32:55 GMT

What scheduling server are you using in SMC? If it is Platform Process Manager then you can set this up in the scheduled job properties.