topic Re: Is there an option in the Flow manager to kill all running processes at the certain time? in Administration and Deployment

Is there an option in the Flow manager to kill all running processes at the certain time?

G9 — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:59:32 GMT

Hi All

I need to kill all running processes everyday at a certain time.

Is there an option in Flow manager (in the interface or in the config files) which do it?

Re: Is there an option in the Flow manager to kill all running processes at the certain time?

gwootton — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:10:43 GMT

By "all running processes" are you referring specifically to SAS jobs running on an LSF Grid?

Flow Manager is a client application for Process Manager, the scheduling component of the grid. I'm not aware of any function in Flow Manager or Process Manager that would terminate all jobs. Their functions are specific to scheduled flows.

There is an LSF command "bkill" that will terminate a given job or all LSF jobs. Process Manager has a similar jkill command if we are talking only about scheduled flows.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=reference-bkill

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/slpm/10.2.0?topic=commands-jkill

Re: Is there an option in the Flow manager to kill all running processes at the certain time?

CarmineVerrell — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:27:12 GMT

No, there isn't a quick way to kill all jobs. You can kill all jobs by creating a SAS program that kills SAS processes (see link below for Unix server) or use O/S commands/scripts. Please be careful when doing this as you will be killing all jobs, including batch jobs that have been submitted to run overnight.

If you decide to use a SAS program instead of O/S scripts, once you create and test your SAS program then you can deploy that job from within Management console and create a flow and schedule it to run every day.

The SAS Terminator: An Ultimate Killer of Unix Processes (lexjansen.com)