Unmanage/Maintenance Mode

Question

I like the 8.5 enhancement of now being able to tell when a node will be remanaged but I still don't like the fact the umanage mode pops up under Down Nodes.  To me that seems the device is down even though the icon looks different....a bit confusing.  I would suggest having a Maintenance Section where nodes/interfaces are unmanaged...not in the Down nodes section on the web site.

BB

FormerMember · Answer

If you're making changes to the database, it won't work.  State is held in memory.  If you make a change in the DB, the poller will just overwrite it.

FormerMember · Answer

We have added a custom field which we use to record the reason we unmanaged the device. We are also trying to set the unmanaged state from outside the Sytem manager but the devices seem to keep going back to the managed state by some background task.

Anyone have any idea of what is causing the device to go back managed?

Andy

WINNT · Answer

Another feature request would be to have a text field available to put comments as to why the node is being unmanaged.