Catch task timeout with DeadlineEventListener

[erlan_nephilim]

Is it possible to listen for task timeout events using DeadlineEventListener? I tried OnJobError but it is not catching the timeouts for some reason

[Justin_B]

There isn’t an event we can hook into for timeouts, but OnJobError should have done it, assuming the timeout is set up to trigger an error.

Does your script fire if you manually fail a task from the Monitor? Might be the issue is there instead?

[erlan_nephilim]

I just checked and found that the OnJobError catches error if for example the file for rendering is not found. However, it doesn’t catch error for timeouts but I can still see the error being reported in deadline monitor.

[Justin_B]

That’s odd, which version of Deadline are you running? On my 10.3.0.15 machine EventChatter does trigger on the task timeout:

And this is how the timeout is set up on that job:

Maybe there’s something else going amiss?