Is there any option to kill a job running for longer time on remote machine by rundeck itself? - remote-server

Question

I need to kill a rundeck job by itself when the job runs more than 2hours on remote machine,is there a possibility

Answer 1

You can set a timeout value in "Timeout" textbox (When creating or editing your job go to the "Other" tab an see that option, check this. You can use values in seconds (like 10s), minutes (like 5m), hours (like 2h), or days (like 2d), also, you can pass an option defined with that value.
I leave a job definition example to test:
<joblist>
<job>
<context>
<options preserveOrder='true'>
<option name='timeout' value='5s' />
</options>
</context>
<defaultTab>nodes</defaultTab>
<description></description>
<dispatch>
<excludePrecedence>true</excludePrecedence>
<keepgoing>false</keepgoing>
<rankOrder>ascending</rankOrder>
<successOnEmptyNodeFilter>false</successOnEmptyNodeFilter>
<threadcount>1</threadcount>
</dispatch>
<executionEnabled>true</executionEnabled>
<id>13ba3f6b-f921-4ab5-95ba-56eb335eed4b</id>
<loglevel>INFO</loglevel>
<name>HugeDelay</name>
<nodeFilterEditable>false</nodeFilterEditable>
<nodefilters>
<filter>name: node01</filter>
</nodefilters>
<nodesSelectedByDefault>true</nodesSelectedByDefault>
<plugins />
<schedule>
<month month='*' />
<time hour='13' minute='19' seconds='0' />
<weekday day='*' />
<year year='*' />
</schedule>
<scheduleEnabled>true</scheduleEnabled>
<sequence keepgoing='false' strategy='node-first'>
<command>
<exec>sleep 30; echo "hi"</exec>
</command>
</sequence>
<timeout>${option.timeout}</timeout>
<uuid>13ba3f6b-f921-4ab5-95ba-56eb335eed4b</uuid>
</job>
</joblist>