Scheduling Downtime

Maintenance of network devices forms an integral part of network administration. You may want to perform a maintenance of specific device types at specific intervals. If such devices are removed from the network, or rebooted, then you will see alarms indicating that the device, or the applications in the device are unavailable. Since the devices are not available when polled for status during the maintenance period, unnecessary alarms are fired. To prevent the devices from being monitored for status during maintenance, you can schedule a maintenance task for such devices.

 

Following are the steps:

  1. From the Settings tab, select Downtime Scheduler option under Monitoring > Configuration.
  2. Click on Add Schedule.
  3. In the Add Downtime Schedule form, provide the following details:
    • Schedule Name
    • Schedule Description
    • Select the Status as Enabled, if you want the Scheduled task to take effect immediately. Else select Disabled, so that you can enable it when required.
    • Select the frequency at which the Task has to be scheduled/executed. It can be Once, Every Day, Every Week, and Every Month.
    • Specify the start and end time/day of the task in the corresponding fields.
    • If it is a schedule to be executed every day, then specify the date from which the task must be scheduled.
    • If it is a monthly schedule, select either the date or the day with the time window for the schedule.
    • You can assign the task to only the required devices, or a device category like switches, routers, to a Business view, or to URL Monitors.
  4. Click Save

The schedule will be executed as configured.

 

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