nodes that go down overnight maintenance window

jasonford1971

Hi - so currently we have a number of nodes that shut down overnight and have alerts muted - rather than a full unmanage - is there a way i can setup a maintenance window to ignore these nodes from 08:00 -06:00 - currently i can only do it on a daily basis via unmanage node which isn't best practice

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holbms

May want to update I believe Maintenance schedules was introduced in 2025.2. This will allow you to setup a recurring scheduled Outage time to mute alerts.

naveensingh43

Hi @jasonford1971

Steps Using the Unmanage Scheduling Utility:

Open the Unmanage Scheduling Utility:
- Located at C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\UnmanageEditor.exe (or Program Files (x86) for older versions).
Log in with your Orion admin credentials.
Click Create New Task > +Add Items.
Select the items (nodes, interfaces, applications) to unmanage.
Set the duration for unmanaging.
Save the task and note the CMD file path.
Open Windows Task Scheduler:
- Create a basic task with the same name.
- Set the frequency and start time.
- Choose Start a program and point to the CMD file.
Finish setup. The selected items will be automatically unmanaged at the scheduled time

Configure SolarWinds Platform to unmanage items on a scheduled basis using unmanaged utility

In latest version you can do it from SolarWinds console

jasonford1971

hi - i want to setup a maintenance window to ignore the servers i.e unmanage them so it doesnt create a false positive for a node being down - muting alerts will still monitor the node

jasonford1971

hi - i want to setup a maintenance window to ignore the servers i.e unmanage them so it doesnt create a false positive for a node being down - muting alerts will still monitor the node

jasonford1971

I Would need admin right correct ?

naveensingh43

yes, you need admin right

holbms

In The Maintenance schedule setup you have the ability to either Mute Alerts or unmanage the Node. I prefer to only mute so the SW Syslogs still show the device restarts etc. to confirm devices restarted etc.

jasonford1971

ok thanks- this is something i dont have

tobyw_loop1

@Walshy this isn't relevant to the SDK - can be moved to general forum

Walshy

Thank you!

antony614

Thanks for this I was just asked this by one of our teams