Maintenance Mode

[pzandvoort]

I've seen this topic come up a few times: Could you please make a way to 'put a node into maintenance mode'? Scheduled would be super-awesome, but I'll gladly take manual. I really don't want this thing to wake me up at 3 in the morning when somebody is doing maintenance

From browsing through the 1.1.7 source, it looks like you have quite a bit of it in place with the 'disabled' status for a node. Just suspend all polling while the node is in maintenance mode. No data collected. No events generated. Etc. Just a single event that the node has changed status (into maintenance mode) and one when it's come out of maintenance mode.

Please? Pretty please?

Peter

[victor]

Hi!

You can use unmanage/manage as a workaround for manual maintenance mode. System do nothing with unmanaged node. The only drawback is that unmanage operation is hierarchical, i.e. all interfaces and services of a node will change status as well, and when you do "manage" node again, they all come into "managed" state, even if some of them was unmanaged before.

Best regards,
Victor

[pzandvoort]

The fact that it's hierarchical is actually great, I think. If the box gets put into maintenance mode, all its children should also be in maintenance mode anyway (unless they were unmanaged to begin with - they should!)

The issue with using managed/unmanaged as a maintenance mode is that it indeed changes the way you had things setup. On our switches, I only have a few things that need managed. 90% of the interfaces is set to unmanaged. I'd have to redo that setup every time.

If you can, have a look at how "What's Up Gold" does maintenance mode. Is really basic, but it works surprisingly well.
http://docs.ipswitch.com/WhatsUp_Gold_v12.3/WebHelp/13689.png