SIM41 - maintenance mode for servers

[Jerry Wessling]

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

[Rob Buxton]

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.

[David Claypool]

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.

[JoopNL]

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