Add Nodes to Maintenance Schedule

PatrickRG

I am looking for a way to add nodes to an existing Maintenance Schedule based on a custom property. I plan to have a node custom property for PatchingGroup that will match one of several possible Maintenance Schedule DisplayNames. Since this will involve several hundred agent based nodes I was hoping to script it. Will the most recent changes to the Maintenance Schedules allow for this is or is this more of a feature request?

When reading through documentation it appears that I can use "Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts.." to create a new schedule but I want to add nodes to existing monthly schedules that I manually created in the new UI.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

vinay.by

Hi @PatrickRG

I have a few things on this one:

1. Using a custom property is a great start.
2. I don't believe you still have that capability in a maintenance schedule where you can tag it with a custom property and it automatically applies an existing maintenance schedule - this is a great idea for a feature request.
3. But then you can combine custom properties with alerting and scripting - Create a custom property for maintenance schedule, you can have different values or a simple single value Yes/No. Use this in your alerting - add an additional condition in your alerts to exclude the objects when Maintenance Schedule custom property = Yes OR the other way round only include the objects when Maintenance Schedule = No, by doing this you can avoid alerting on those objects (Be it your node/interface). Lastly, you will need to script this - when you want to add or remove additional nodes/interfaces from the maintenance schedule update the custom property value accordingly.

I am not saying this is the best possible way, but this would work in your case, hope this helps.