It would be very useful to have the ability to add a recurring schedule from the maintenance mode drop down.
Currently you can only schedule a one time event:
up voted, really need that
Thanksgiving bump!
This would be a really useful feature!
Yes!
This would be highly appreciated, quite surprised this is not a standard feature
Much needed, please bring it soon
this is great except for one thing- we need recurring windows of time- meaning, one host is down for an hour each night. We need to have this window auto schedule...this assumes a long term outage.
We need this so much. Many complaints about the monitoring system that alerts constantly for nightly outages that we know are going to happen. People are associating "Solarwinds" with "Annoying" and that isn't good if we want to keep it around.
So I agree doing this in the Web UI would be great, and is much needed. However in the mean time do you all know about the "Unmanage Scheduling Utility" on the Orion server?
It is not ideal, and can be a bit frustrating at times, but you can put in reoccuring maintenance windows. This is a tool that basically just creates a script that is then run in Windows Task Scheduler on the Orion server. But until they get the functionality in the Web UI, it is a way to quiet those reoccuring alerts.
I did not know about it but now that I see it, I like it. You're right it's not as convenient as the web interface but it does meet the immediate recurring need.
Thanks for pointing it out!!
A few things, when running the tool, use a service account that has permissions in SW to unmanage devices, as when it creates the script it uses this account and credentials. Then when setting up the Windows Task Schedule use a service account too, by default new schedules Run only when user is logged in.
I have to mention that the "Unmanage Scheduling Utility" isn't good with HA either, as it need to be repeated on each HA pair.
It would be nice to lose another legacy local application and get it into the web console (and HA aware please!)
First ever Thwack comment is going down here because WE NEED THIS!!!
Vote for this one--it makes perfect sense.
Must have feature!
C'mon, Solarwinds team! WE.NEED.THIS.
We really need this. At the very least, recurring maintenance schedules need to be manageable from the Orion console. Having to configure a separate utility, on the Solarwinds server, is at best a nuisance.
What is this server-side utility you are talking about?
Added to the votes because this is an important feature that is needed.
Definitely an urgent need. Currently generating several hundred alerts a week during a window the window that we have several automated maintenance jobs running.
I agree. This is an extremely critical feature. Without it, it is very difficult to keep track of false positives do to normally scheduled maintenance.
Yes please.
A web gui version of the unmanage utility for sure.
We have kit in European countries that have to turn off office equipment at night to stop out of hours working. The NOC just ignore there devices now and this is worrying that they may now ignore a genuine alert.
Completely agree. Great feature here.
Scheduled maintenance mode is a common feature in most Enterprise monitoring tools....how is it that this is not available in Solarwinds?
Daily we need to 'silence' several devices that are shut down every day
Weekly there is scheduled maintenance jobs that require nodes to be silenced.
We are migrating from Spectrum to Solarwinds, and this is the biggest pain point. Really can't understand how this wasn't included already.
I'd like to be able to have multiple mutes and unmanagement periods available for a single node. Currently, if we have say three maintenance windows coming up for a single server, I have to use the mute scheduling for one of them, the unmanage schedule for the 2nd period, and then make a note to go back in after the mute scheduling is over to schedule another mute period. Otherwise when you schedule the 2nd mute period it just over-rides the first.
Still, currently things are better than back in the day before we could mute at all and had to play with custom properties.......
Seems like complete madness that an enterprise product doesn't have this in as a default function? its not like solarwinds is cheap either.
Do Solarwinds often just ignore or not comment on these requests?
Steve, your question is answered here:
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/announcements/blog/2017/10/06/you-dont-know-thwack--the-onb…
I can verify that the process is followed, as I've submitted a fair number of Feature Requests, had some of them voted enough to be implemented, some of them not supported well enough and seen them turned down.
I agree with your thoughts about what features are reasonably expected in an enterprise-sized monitoring product.
Patience in all things--the good ones will be implemented (sometimes in the next product release or hot fix, sometimes a few more releases out into the future).
Muting alerts on a recurring basis would be an extremely useful feature! Additionally the ability to cancel scheduled mutes as well - for example if the date was entered incorrectly.
Would like to see this in a release soon.
"Additionally the ability to cancel scheduled mutes as well"
This can be done now - after scheduling a mute or un-manage, go into the Node Details view and it should show the future scheduled mutes/unmanage periods, you can click "Cancel" on those to remove them:
Bump
How is this even up for voting? This is one of the fundamental features for monitoring system.
We just recently implemented Solarwinds the correct way. I am new to the company so I walked into this, but as I am working with the product, this is one of the things that stumps everyone I mention it to - the lack of setting reoccurring maintenance mode.
Can we please, please please have this implemented?
Please implement this. Currently we have to manually set an mute schedule for all our servers for the deployment WSUS patches and subsequent server reboots. I understand we can set a Unmanaged Schedule, but we don't want to stop managing them, we want to stop the alerts ergo we want the ability to schedule mute alerts.
We are in a same boat here. Every Friday, we spend time scheduling nodes to maintenance.
