Setting Individual/Group Machine Maintenance Windows in 5.3

[ronlee]

Hola all... I'm a little new to SIM (5.3) and need to set up maintenance windows for about 65 Citrix boxes that reboot at different intervals and are currently generating a slew of false email notifications. (System is unreachable) I've found the "Suspend/Resume Monitoring" tab but hope that this is not the only choice to control monitoring.
(am i off base here...?)
I'm not much at scripting either but thought I heard that maybe there is a simple way to schedule a task to disable the service (not sure which one/s) that would stop the monitoring prior to reboot and then run a second after reboot to restart the service but that still seems like it would generate a warning. ANY help from the gurus would be greatly appreciated...! Cheers...!

[Markus M.]

Hi,

as already supposed by yourself: Suspend/Resume is the way to go.

You can schedule both tasks on individual, a group or even a complete collection of systems.

Theoretically you can write a script which starts this tasks just before system shutdown/ after system reboot, but there is nothing similiar integrated into SIM by default.

For my environment the scheduled tasks which suspend/resume monitoring are sufficient..

kind regards
Markus

[ronlee]

Thanks Markus...! I have a few more details to ask if you don't mind...?

1. "You can schedule both tasks on individual, a group or even a complete collection of systems."

Is the task you mention above run on the SIM server (W2K3), or monitored server, and do you have an example by chance...? (.bat, .vbs, etc..)

2. "Theoretically you can write a script which starts this tasks just before system shutdown/after system reboot, but there is nothing similiar integrated into SIM by default."

Is there a good resource for scripting and command line tools/commands...?

3. "For my environment the scheduled tasks which suspend/resume monitoring are sufficient.."

If so, how did you configure the suspend/resume tasks in your environment without scripting or does the task actually launch a script from Windows Scheduled Task Manager or is the task configurable from within the SIM Console...? I'm just not clear on what you meant here...

Again... Many Thanks...!

Ron