Administrators can view active transactions and kill long-running transactions.

Before you begin

Role required: admin

About this task

Note: Functionality described here requires the Admin role.

This action is intended to stop background processes, such as scheduled jobs, and not user-initiated transactions.

Procedure

  1. If High Security Settings is enabled, elevate privileges to security_admin.
  2. Navigate to the appropriate Active Transactions module.
    • To view and kill transactions on the current node for your instance, navigate to User Administration > Active Transactions.
    • To view and kill transactions on all nodes for your instance, navigate to System Diagnostics > Active Transactions (All Nodes).
  3. Select the transaction you want to stop.
    The process to display the transactions is included in the list. Do not kill that process.
  4. Either right-click the record and select Kill, or select the check box next to the record and select Kill from the Actions on selected rows drop-down at the bottom of the list.