Automated Suspend/Resume monitoring scheduled task

[zarulzakuan]

Hi,

Since HP SIM do not provide scheduling bulk servers for suspend/resume monitoring task, I do the task using direct command through CMD. After I ran the command, the scheduled task do appear on the All Scheduled Tasks however eventhough I set the start date/time correctly(ahead of current date/time), it shows "Run Once - Already Ran". 

This is how I do the Task Scheduling

Lets say I want to suspend SERVER1 from 21 Sept 2012 at 15:00 until  19:00 on the same day

1. Wrote the query for servers to resume and saved it as queryresume.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<query-list>
<query name="Server resume Targets" type="DeviceViews" category-name="ToolsCollection" owner="domain\user" locked="false" application="">
<criteria name="CriteriaByName" sense="INCLUDE">
<value>SERVER1</value>
</criteria>
</query>
</query-list>

 2.  Wrote the query for servers to suspend and saved it as querysuspend.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<query-list>
<query name="Server suspend Targets" type="DeviceViews" category-name="ToolsCollection" owner="domain\user" locked="false" application="">
        <criteria name="CriteriaByName" sense="INCLUDE">
            <value>SERVER1</value>
        </criteria>
    </query>
</query-list>

3. Wrote task for resuming monitoring and saved it as taskresume.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<task-list>
 <task name="Server resume" type="schedule" owner="domain\user" state="enabled">
        <toolname>Suspend or Resume Monitoring</toolname>
        <queryname>Server resume Targets</queryname>
<scheduleinfo interval="ranonce" time="19:00" date="09/21/12" />
<timefilter />
        <toolparams>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;XeObject className="com.hp.mx.core.tools.systemattributes.SnoozeTaskModel" classVersion="2.0"&gt;
&lt;Property type="superclass"&gt;
&lt;/Property&gt;
 &lt;Property name="suspendState"&gt;
  &lt;Simple&gt;0&lt;/Simple&gt;
 &lt;/Property&gt;
 &lt;Property name="strSuspendState"&gt;
  &lt;Simple&gt;off&lt;/Simple&gt;
 &lt;/Property&gt;
 &lt;Property name="language"&gt;
  &lt;Simple&gt;en&lt;/Simple&gt;
 &lt;/Property&gt;
&lt;/XeObject&gt;
</toolparams>
    </task>
</task-list>

4. Wrote task for resuming monitoring and saved it as tasksuspend.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<task-list>
 <task name="Server suspend" type="schedule" owner="domain\user" state="enabled">
        <toolname>Suspend or Resume Monitoring</toolname>
        <queryname>Server suspend Targets</queryname>
<scheduleinfo interval="ranonce" time="15:00" date="09/21/12" />
<timefilter />
        <toolparams>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;XeObject className="com.hp.mx.core.tools.systemattributes.SnoozeTaskModel" classVersion="2.0"&gt;
&lt;Property type="superclass"&gt;
&lt;/Property&gt;
 &lt;Property name="suspendState"&gt;
  &lt;Simple&gt;-1&lt;/Simple&gt;
 &lt;/Property&gt;
 &lt;Property name="strSuspendState"&gt;
  &lt;Simple&gt;always&lt;/Simple&gt;
 &lt;/Property&gt;
 &lt;Property name="language"&gt;
  &lt;Simple&gt;en&lt;/Simple&gt;
 &lt;/Property&gt;
&lt;/XeObject&gt;
</toolparams>
    </task>
</task-list>

5. And finally ran the batch script

mxquery -a -f querysuspend.xml
mxtask -cf tasksuspend.xml

mxquery -a -f queryresume.xml
mxtask -cf taskresume.xml

Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance :-)

[Rene Nascimento]

I use SIM all the time to Schedule server(s) to suspend monitoring and a second scheduled task to take servers out of suspension mode.

[zarulzakuan]

Yes I am aware about that. The thing is I want to do it automatically. I've done script to automate both task. From excel, I just have to put list of server, set the start and end date/time and run macro to run all xml files like above. However, once it completes, in "All Scheduled Tasks" shows that both tasks already run.

[zarulzakuan · Accepted solution]

turned out there was a typo in the xml. 

interval="ranonce" should be

interval="runonce"

dumb mistake :-p

[tobro-home]

I had the Same issue but there is a HP SIM 6.3.1  fix you have to

links.

http://g1w0134.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=110&prodSeries...

Hotfix can be downloaded here:

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/dl_windows63.html#hotfix63\

I made a spread that help me suspend muliple servers from excel

Here are my

     My code TXT,   How to docs and  xlsm App attached which is ZIP

let me know if need help email tonyb@mr-itpro.com

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