does solarwinds support multiple maintenance schedules for the devices.
This is coming in the next release, 2025.2. RC is April 15, 2025 and GA is planned for June 10th, 2025.
Not as of now, but as an alternative you can use unmanage utility, but be careful that will overwrite the existing schedule if there is currently an active schedule. What this means is say first maintenance schedule is from 10 April to 20 April and you if apply another maintenance schedule within that time like say 14 April to 15 April the first would be reset and monitoring will be re-enabled on 15 April - the latest schedule that you apply would reset the existing one.
But then you can always have schedules like this through unmanage utility:
1. First schedule 10 April to 20 April
2. Second schedule 21 April to 25 April
This will work.
Noob here...Chad, what about repeated schedules? Example: we have Azure vm's on a start/stop schedule to save cost overnight, so we would need to unmanage or stop alerts every day for the same range, on a per node basis as the range may be different. Currently the only way I can see to do this is create separate alerts per node which is going to be a lot of work.I couldn't find anything but reference to a deprecated tool which involved windows task manager, etc.
Thanks
Yes, that is a perfect example for the new Recurring Maintenance Window feature. You could set a daily scheduled to automatically set nodes into an unmanaged state.https://thwack.solarwinds.com/products/solarwinds-observability-self-hosted/b/news/posts/solarwinds-platform-and-products-release-candidate-version-2025-2-is-now-available
Appreciate the response Chad. Bonus points for your avatar.Today is alright for tonight,
Brian J
Yes, SolarWinds does support multiple maintenance schedules for devices. This is especially useful for organizations that need to apply different maintenance windows to various nodes, groups, or device types based on business hours
