topic Re: SIM41 - maintenance mode for servers in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

SIM41 - maintenance mode for servers

Jerry Wessling — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:40:20 GMT

How do I put a server in maintenance mode in SIM 4.1 so that I don't receive alerts during certain hours?

Re: SIM41 - maintenance mode for servers

Rob Buxton — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:57:44 GMT

Short of altering the alert schedule or excluding the Server from the Event Notification there isn't an easy way.

I use the Custom Command Option to provide a more flexible way of managing event notification.

I have a perl script which reads a list of excluded Servers prior to sending particular alerts. That's just a quickly editable text file. Again though it tends to just completely ignore it rather than put a schedule on it although that could be dealt with by perl as well.

Re: SIM41 - maintenance mode for servers

David Claypool — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:34:02 GMT

As Rob says, you could exclude that server from the list that defines the systems to be queried, but that's a little bit of a hassle. We have kicked around the idea of a "pause button" for this purpose, and it's on the wish list for a future version. We'll have to wait and see if it makes it in.

Re: SIM41 - maintenance mode for servers

JoopNL — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:01:08 GMT

I'd really like this functionality too. Ofcourse we would like to be able to call the pause function from the Command Line/Shell!