topic Re: How to schedule a Unix/Linux shell script with Process Manager ? in Administration and Deployment

How to schedule a Unix/Linux shell script with Process Manager ?

BigSASFan — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 13:46:59 GMT

Hello,

I like Process Manager as a scheduler in SAS Grid environment.

But one thing confused me is that Platform Suite for SAS is an OEM version of Platform LSF that does not allow for additional shell scripts to be executed. The bsub command can be used to manually submit shell scripts, but these have a hard execution limit of 30 seconds if they are not a SAS program. If you are looking to run shell scripts on LSF, you would need a full LSF license rather than the OEM version.

How do you schedule shell script programs via Process Manager on a SAS Grid Platform? I could embed shell script in a SAS program using xcmd and system calls through SAS, but not convenient. Any thoughts are welcome.

Regards,

Re: How to schedule a Unix/Linux shell script with Process Manager ?

Mark_sas — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:30:22 GMT

As you say, the OEM'ed version doesn't support execution of non-SAS programs. You can either license SAS Grid Manager (as opposed to SAS Grid Manager for Platform) from SAS, which supports the execution of non-SAS programs through a SAS-developed Grid provider, or you can license the full LSF version separately.

Re: How to schedule a Unix/Linux shell script with Process Manager ?

BigSASFan — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:38:49 GMT

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply. I am curious about this:

"You can either license SAS Grid Manager (as opposed to SAS Grid Manager for Platform) from SAS, which supports the execution of non-SAS programs through a SAS-developed Grid provider, or ....."

When you said "license SAS Grid Manager from SAS, which supports the execution of non-SAS programs....", I am a little confused. Could you elaborate what did you mean "SAS Grid Manager" vs "SAS Grid Manager for Platform" ? We are on SAS9.4M4 on Unix, and we do have SAS Grid and Platform Suite.

Re: How to schedule a Unix/Linux shell script with Process Manager ?

SASKiwi — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:00:15 GMT

In SAS 9.4M6 a new SAS-developed scheduler became available. To use SAS Grid Manager from SAS you would need to upgrade to M6: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=gridref&docsetTarget=gridrefwhatsnew94.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en