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  • When a job should be killed then the Agent sends a SIGTERM signal.
    • This signal can be ignored or can be handled by job. For shell scripts a trap can be defined to e.g. perform cleanup tasks such as disconnecting from a database or removing temporary files.
  • The job configuration includes the Grace timeout setting:
    • The specified duration is applied after a SIGTERM signal has been sent by the Agent. This allows the job to terminate on its own, for example after some cleanup is performed.
    • After Should the job still run after the specified Grace Timeout duration then the Agent sends a SIGKILL signal (corresponding to kill -9) that aborts the OS process.

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