Three questions regarding asynchronous jobs

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Hi there,

just three short questions regarding async jobs.

1.) How can I check the async_status of a “fire and forget” job on all my servers at once? So instead of checking a specific server’s job id 115503716196.18657 (mind the dot) I would like to basically check 115503716196.*, which doesn’t work. Also just “115503716196” doesn’t work.

2.) Is there a way to kill “fire and forget” async jobs?

3.) Is there some sort of garbage collection being done for the ~/.ansible_async/ directory or does that grow forever?

Here’s a bit more explanation regarding just my first question, how I can check the async_status of a job on all my servers at once:

Say I’m executing an async job like that:

ansible all -B 90 -P 0 -a “sleep 80”

I get a confirmation of successful start like this:

background launch…

ip_srv1 | success >> {
“ansible_job_id”: “115503716196.18657”,
“results_file”: “/home/ubuntu/.ansible_async/115503716196.18657”,
“started”: 1
}

ip_srv2 | success >> {
“ansible_job_id”: “115503716196.6532”,
“results_file”: “/home/ubuntu/.ansible_async/115503716196.6532”,
“started”: 1
}

Now, is there a way to check the status of the job on all servers at once?

I tried the obvious choice first and did:

ansible all -m async_status -a “jid=115503716196”

However, this just results in:

ip_srv1 | FAILED >> {
“ansible_job_id”: “115503716196”,
“failed”: true,
“msg”: “could not find job”
}

ip_srv2 | FAILED >> {
“ansible_job_id”: “115503716196”,
“failed”: true,
“msg”: “could not find job”
}

Only if I do:

ansible all -m async_status -a “jid=115503716196.18657”

I get what I want - but of course only for the server of which I typed in the concret job id.

54.171.202.93 | success >> {
“ansible_job_id”: “115503716196.18657”,
“changed”: false,
“results_file”: “/home/ubuntu/.ansible_async/115503716196.18657”,
“started”: 1
}

54.72.229.37 | FAILED >> {
“ansible_job_id”: “115503716196.18657”,
“failed”: true,
“msg”: “could not find job”
}

Cheers
Ingmar

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Hi there,

just bumping my old question up again.

Especially the first and second question are still of high interest for me (nobody using async jobs in the way I do?):

1.) How can I check the async_status of a “fire and forget” job on all my servers at once? So instead of checking a specific server’s job id 115503716196.18657 (mind the dot) I would like to basically check 115503716196.*, which doesn’t work. Also just “115503716196” doesn’t work.

2.) Is there a way to kill “fire and forget” async jobs?

Best
Ingmar

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  1. async_status works on a particular JID but cannot be called on wildcards.

  2. killing fire and forget jobs? Not presently.

  3. For the async directory you would want to delete the leftover files manually. I believe non “fire and forget” jobs do delete the file.