RE: Best Way to Kill Runaway Interactive Jobs?

There are system monitors available via Ops Nav and Management Central
that can monitor CPU usage and then be set to alarm, page, email, call a
program, whatever you like.  Or companies like Bytware (MessengerPlus)
and BMC (Patrol) have products that handle all sorts of operational
issues.  Ops Nav monitors are a cheap solution, they should be able to
detect and react via a program to a runaway (if you're nervous about
killing a job from an automated process, then just hold it).

HTH,
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Barry [mailto:TBARRY@centralsan.dst.ca.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:26 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Best Way to Kill Runaway Interactive Jobs?


We have some users who shutdown their PC's without signing off the 400.

>>> rob@dekko.com 01/22/03 11:17AM >>>
1)  How does one define a runaway job?  Lots of CPU?  Lots of disk?
Never 
ending but neither of the first two?
We had a runaway query that sucked up disk space.  Set a cap on the
group 
profile and that problem will never occur again.  Try to keep them at 80

to 90% full.
After shooting a few people who insisted on *wrap or *prtwrap for all 
joblogs, the occurance of never ending dropped off significantly.
Instead 
of getting upset because their job ended because their log was full,
they 
now try to find out why their log got full.
Lots of CPU?  Better start delving into the work management API's.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Ted Barry" <TBARRY@centralsan.dst.ca.us>
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Does anyone know of a way to setup a server job to monitor and kill 
runaway interactive jobs?  This invariably happens when one is on 
vacation, but never when you're clued to the system.  Why is that?


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