Be able to create a Network Maintenance schedule where you set the date, time range, devices effected and alerts will be disabled during that maintenance.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you, but the Unmanage Scheduling Utility does this. You can schedule Nodes, Interfaces, or Applications to be unmanaged in large batch tasks and schedule them to be unmanaged in Orion on a one-time basis, or regular schedule. They've even added the ability to view and edit this info on the web console with the latest update of NPM, version 10.6.
Sorry again if you are meaning something else, but your description exactly matches what the Unmanage Schedule Utility does.
I'm not sure about the OP, but we have scheduled at-risk windows whereby we can perform reloads/patches etc. I'd really like a feature where these can be set as a calendar so that availability stats are not affected when systems go down during these windows, but still keep them managed for traffic/backup/alert monitoring etc.
Regards,
John
Maybe I'm still not understanding, but the Unmanage Utility allows you to schedule the windows using the Scheduled Task Manager.
If you are saying that where you work, there is a window where Admins can take down their boxes during a specified time-frame and that you want to monitor statistics during that timeframe but not have downtime count against them should they take their box down, then that is just something you would have to factor into your Availability report in Report Writer (a few lines of SQL would fix it). Either that or they would have to just get the node/nodes unmanaged manually right before they take it down. With the new Unmanage Utility available from the web console, you may even be able to give them a limited account that will allow them to unmanage their node themselves so that it doesn't count against their downtime. With the auditing tool you could set an alert to tell you if they unmanage their node outside of your scheduled at-risk window to make sure they aren't abusing this prvilige.
