Show - Node Maintenance Duration Window

Currently you can set a node into maintenance and forced to put in a window for time frame. This is perfect, however I am finding that when I come back to a node that is in maintenance say a week or two later I have the following issues:

I have no idea who put it into maintenance (who put this into maintenance?)
- I could use the audit tracking on the device to see who did this...but it would be very helpful to see this say, in the Managed Nodes tab somehow where we do most of our work managing the nodes.
- I stand corrected...I don't see an audit log showing who put the node into maintenance mode at all...no event either. So I have no idea who put the node into maintenance.
I can't determine how long this node's maintenance was set for (when is it due to come out of maintenance?)
Why was the node put into maintenance in the first place? Ticket reference, notes, something.....

Add visibility into maintenance details (who performed the maintenance, and time stamp - how long the maintenance window is currently set for)

Add function to force user (make mandatory) to input the reason the node was put into maintenance mode

Add a ticket reference field to simply hold a ticket number reference - this way the field can be searched in the future.

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Comments

mavturner

1. This should be possible (see screenshot below). Are you on NPM 10.4?

2. There is a difficult way to do this today with audit events, but we can definitely make this easier.

3. One of the top idea request is for an unmanage reason. I assume this is the same as your third request and it's definitely something highly desired.

NetEng33

Yeah...I am in 10.4 and I went to check a node in which I know one of my users put into maintenance mode. There was no log of it in the audit. I tested just prior to this note to confirm. I placed a single node into maintenance mode for the next 1 hour. Refreshed on the node details page for approximately 5 minutes to ensure no delays in writing the status change to database and polling information back to the web page....no entry in the last 5 audit events.

Then I went to the actual events page where there is more search functions and searched for that particular node and all audit events...still nothing. So I am not sure why it wouldn't write that same thing that I see there above in your example?

Maybe I need to open a case?

NetEng33

mavturner - I see I did not follow up to your post after I learned that I do see this audit log successfully now. I think when I reloaded one of the modules during a different issue, it started to appear in the audit log as designed. This is a good place to see bread crumbs of such event. I would still hold the feature request to make something a little more formal, some type of window, or dedication to the maintenance window, time stamp, who, and definitely a reason for maintenance. Thank you for your post and screen shot.

NetEng33