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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright (c) 2023 The Regents of the University of California
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
+# met: redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer;
+# redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+# documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution;
+# neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its
+# contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
+# this software without specific prior written permission.
+#
+# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+# "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+# LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
+# A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
+# OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+# SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+# LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+# DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+# THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+# (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+# OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+# This script will try to safely halt each VM specified in the Vagrantfile.
+# A VM is skipped if it is currently running a job and returned to after
+# attempted shutdowns on the other VMs. This cycle continues indefinitely until
+# all the runners are shutdown.
+#
+# This script is usefull as the VMs occasionally need to be halted to apply
+# patches and do maintenance. This script allows us to do this without
+# interrupting any jobs that may be running.
+
+while true; do
+    # This will list all the VMs still running. If there are no VM's running,
+    # we infer all have been shutdown and we exit the script. Otherwise, we
+    # iterate over he VMs in an attempt to shut them down.
+    active=$(vagrant status | grep running | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f1)
+    if [ "$active" == "" ]; then
+        echo "All VMs have been shutdown. Exiting."
+        exit 0
+    fi
+    echo "The following VMs are still running:"
+    echo "${active}"
+
+    for virtm in $active
+    do
+        # This script will first list the contents of the "_diag" directory.
+        # This directory hosts the github action runner job logs. Each job
+        # is logged to a seperate file in the directpry. This script then
+        # sort these files by name. The last file in this sorted list is  the
+        # most recent file and therefore for the most recent job. We can sort
+        # them in this was because their filenames are appended with UTC
+        # timestamps.
+        #
+        # One one job ever runs at a time on a GitHub runner so if there is any
+        # job running, it be being logged in the most recent file in the
+        # "_diag" directory.
+        #
+        # If the job has completed the last line in the file will contain the
+        # string "Job completed.". This script checks for this and, if found,
+        # we assume there are no jobs running safely run `vagrant halt` to
+        # shutdown the VM. If the job is still running we print a message
+        # saying the job is still running and will return to it on the next
+        # iteration of the loop.
+        echo "Inspecting \"${virtm}\"..."
+        vagrant ssh $virtm -c 'ls _diag | sort | tail -1 | xargs -I % cat "_diag/%" | tail -1 | grep -q "Job completed"'
+        status=$?
+        if [[ ${status} == 0 ]]; then
+            echo "${virtm} is Idle. Attempting shutdown"
+            vagrant halt ${virtm} && echo "${virtm} successfully halted" || echo "${virtm} experience a failure halting"
+        else
+            echo "${virtm} is Busy. Skipping for now."
+        fi
+    done
+    # Sleep here for 20 seconds just to ensure all the VMs have time
+    # to shutdown.
+    sleep 20
+done