SAS Viya Information Catalog: How can I stop a Discovery Agent Job?

[klroesner]

Hi,

I am trying to crawl a large number of tables. The job has been running for several hours. How can I stop it?

Kind regards,

Klaus

[bishal18]

Hello @klroesner ,

See the SAS Information Catalog documentation here that has information on how to monitor jobs via SAS Environment Manager's "Jobs and Flows" page (select the version of the doc that matches with your SAS Viya version)- Monitor Agent Jobs  .

[klroesner]

Hello @bishal18, thank you for the link, but it doesn't say anything about how to stop a Discovery job, right?  In the meantime, I've submitted a SAS Product suggestion and a SAS colleague has already replied: Information Catalog - STOP Button for Discovery Agent - SAS Support Communities

Kind Regards,

Klaus

[MickeyS]

@klroesner, A Kubernetes admin can delete the compute session (the sas-compute-service pod associated with the agent) that is running and the sas-catalog-jobs pod associated with the agent which will cease any work and cause the job to timeout. Figuring out which of those pods is actually associated with the agent is not easy, but it can be done. 

[bishal18]

@MickeyS - Does the sas-compute job/pod spawned by the SAS Information Catalog discovery agent not have an identifying label? If not, that would also be a good feature request from a Kubernetes perspective. Labels are one way to identify such jobs/pods. I know some products and solutions that implement this.