Introduction
Scheduled maintenance is vital for optimal utilization, availability and performance of the resources in your IT environment.
Scheduled maintenance:
- Includes software updates, system patches, database maintenance, hardware checks, planned shutdown, and so on.
- Helps you mitigate unexpected outages, disruptions, equipment failure. It involves planned activities to ensure security, reliability, and optimal performance of the resources.
- May be a one-time task or a recurring one.
Create and manage scheduled maintenance on the managed resources in your IT environment.
Following are the actions you can perform on a scheduled maintenance:
- Create - Create a scheduled maintenance.
- View - View the scheduled maintenance details.
- Edit - Edit pending scheduled maintenance.
- Create Copy - Create a copy of an existing scheduled maintenance.
- Suspend - Suspend active scheduled maintenance.
- End - End an active scheduled maintenance window.
- Resume - Resume suspended maintenance window.
- Remove - Remove a pending or completed maintenance window.
Note
- Device View and Scheduled Maintenance Manage permissions are required to create scheduled maintenance.
- Device View and Scheduled Maintenance View permissions are required to view scheduled maintenance.
Create a scheduled maintenance
Follow these steps to create a scheduled maintenance:
Navigate to Setup > Account. The Account Details page is displayed.
Click the Scheduled Maintenance tile.
Click on +ADD on the Scheduled Maintenance page.
You can select any one of the following:
- All Resources: Select this option if you want to assign all the resources in the client.
- Selected Resources: Select this option if you want to manually assign resources. Scheduled maintenance will be created for all the selected resources.
You can use any of the options - Manually Assigned Resources, Resource Groups, or Sites, or a combination of them.- Manually Assigned Resources: Select the resources from the dropdown. You can also use the Advanced Search link to select resources:
- Click the Advanced Search link and click on +Query and build a query.
- Select the resources and click on Apply Selection.
Note: A maximum of 50 resources can be selected.
- Resource Groups: Select the resource group(s) from the dropdown.
Note: A maximum of 50 groups can be selected. - Sites: Select the site(s) from the dropdown.
Note: A maximum of 50 sites can be selected.
- Manually Assigned Resources: Select the resources from the dropdown. You can also use the Advanced Search link to select resources:
Enter the following details under Maintenance Window Details:
- Name: Enter a scheduled maintenance name.
- Description: Enter the reason for the maintenance.
- Schedule: Select the required schedule recurrence and enter the details:
- One-time
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Settings: Select the required option(s):
Run RBA scripts during this window: The system will run RBA scripts during the maintenance period.
Install patches during this window: The system will install patches during the maintenance period.
Correlate all open alerts when window ends: All the open alerts will be correlated when the maintenance period ends.
Escalate maintenance alerts when window ends: All the maintenance alerts will be escalated when the maintenance period ends.
Define alert criteria to classify an alert as a maintenance alert:
- Click Any or All to match any one or all of the conditions you define for filtering.
- Enter information for the filter criteria in the following fields:
- Property: Select the required attribute.
- Operator: Select the operator.
- Value: Select or enter the value accordingly.
- Click +Add to add more conditions.
- Click the delete icon to delete a condition.
Note:
- Alerts that meet the conditions given in the Filter Criteria will be triggered as Scheduled Maintenance alerts.
- Alerts that do not meet the conditions given in the Filter Criteria will be triggered as Monitoring alerts.
Click Add Maintenance Window. The Scheduled Maintenance is created and displayed on the Scheduled Maintenance listing page.
Use the search box to search for the newly created Scheduled Maintenance.
The Scheduled Maintenance listing page displays the following information:
Column Name | Description |
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Name | Scheduled Maintenance name. |
Description | Description of the Scheduled Maintenance. Displays a clock tooltip. Hover over the tooltip to view the schedule information. |
Resources | Number of resources assigned to the scheduled maintenance. Click on the number to view the details. |
Resource Groups | Number of resource groups assigned to the scheduled maintenance. Click on number to view the details. |
Sites | Number of sites assigned to the scheduled maintenance. Click on the number to view the details. |
Alert Conditions | Yes: Alert conditions are defined. Alerts are triggered based on the filter criteria. No: No alert conditions are defined, so no alerts are triggered. |
Escalate Alerts | Yes if the option to escalate maintenance alerts when window ends is selected during the schedule maintenance creation process. |
Correlate Alerts | Yes if the option to Correlate all open alerts when window ends is selected during the schedule maintenance creation process. |
Manage scheduled maintenance
You can perform the following actions on scheduled maintenance.
Action | Description |
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View Details | To view scheduled maintenance details:
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Create Copy | To create a copy:
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Edit | Note: You can edit only pending scheduled maintenance. To edit:
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Suspend | You can suspend an active scheduled maintenance. To suspend:
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End | You can end an active scheduled maintenance. To end:
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Resume | You can resume a suspended maintenance window. To resume:
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Remove | You can remove a pending or completed maintenance window. To remove:
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