Powershell script to unmanage multiple nodes in the SAM

jbarbarello810

Hi all, first post, yay!

Ok, so I am a Network Operations Engineer (sounds fancier than it really is lol) and we have Solarwinds NPM and SAM in our environment.

When we patch our servers (VMs via Shavlik) we have the "notify me when a server reboots" alert configured so that the team gets an email.

Prior to patching, which can sometimes involve over a 100 servers, we have to unmanage each server in the SAM because management does not want all the alert emails to be sent out.

Management also does not want us to "pause all alerts" prior to patching.

I did some quick research but I also wanted to post this question on here.

Is there a script or command that I can leverage to unmanage all the servers at once and then run the command with a different switch to remanage them once patching/rebooting is complete?

Thank you in advance for your help!

orioncrack

The Unmanage Utility on your main polling server is quirky but works. Keep in mind if you apply the utility, or even do it manually in the Web console to 100 servers, you risk the chance of them going into Unknown state. This is a known issue that we suffered in NPM 11. SAM 6.2

Schedule tasks to be stopped using the Unmanage Scheduling utility