Terminating Active Jobs

You can also terminate certain jobs that are actively running. For example, you may need to stop a job that is producing erroneous results or will run beyond an allotted maintenance window.

Actively running jobs respond differently to being terminated than scheduled or recurring jobs. When you terminate an actively running job, forthcoming and scheduled phases are immediately canceled. For instructions, see Terminating an Active Installation/Uninstallation or Remediation Job.

An active installation/ uninstallation or remediation job can be stopped in any job phase. Depending on the phase that is running when the job is being terminated, the following behaviors apply:

- Analyze: the job terminates after the Analyze phase is completed. The next phases does not start.

- Download or Install/ Uninstall/ Remediate: execution stops as soon as the phase finishes processing the item it is currently handling.

Further, pending items, from the job item list will be skipped. The next phase, if any, will not be executed.

Terminating an active installation, uninstallation or remediation job has the following results:

• No processes will be started on additional servers.
• If a job phase has already started on a server, then the currently running tasks from that phase will be completed. No new tasks will be started within that job phase. Also no new phases will be started.
• Any staged packages downloaded to the server will be removed, no matter what phase the job was processing when it was canceled.
• The Job Status view displays each job step and indicates whether or not they were performed.

Status	Explanation
Server Status
Canceled	The job was canceled before completing all of the steps on the device.
Succeeded	All the steps were completed on the device.
Step Status
Skipped	The step did not get executed on the listed device.
Succeeded	The step was completed on the listed device.

The Job Logs view displays the status of the job.

Job Status	Explanation
Terminating	The termination request has been received and the job is in the process of ending.
Terminated	The termination process has completed.