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.
Bump.
To to top bumpidy bump
Bump! This needs to be implemented
I'm missing the 'recurring maintenance schedule' option in SolarWinds for recurring maintenance windows I'm trying to implement.
This feature really needs to be implemented soon. Could not believe the maintenance schedule could not be set recurring.
Friday Bump
We are actively looking to replace SolarWinds SAM because of this simple feature that isn't implemented. It is astonishing really.
I recently opened a ticket for this functionality to confirm it was not available. I was told that they submitted a feature request on my behalf but that I should visit Thwack to also submit the idea. Imagine my disappointment to discover that this idea was submitted almost 2 years ago! This seems like the most basic of features for an enterprise monitoring platform. Competitive solutions already posses this functionality. C'mon SolarWinds!
Case # - 00280764 Recurring maintenance windows - suppress polling/alerting nodes nightly
Good day!I have submitted a feature request to our development team as requested as thefunctionality that you require is currently not in our product. We will nowclose and archive this ticket. We value your opinion as a customer and without you we wouldn’t have suchstrong features in our products. The development teams look very closely ateach one to determine viability and will decide on the timeline of the release(if they decide to implement the feature). We cannot deliver timeframes orrelease dates for all feature requests.You may also post your request to the Thwack forum for the SolarWinds productyou wish to see improved. Thwack Feature Request forums are here: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/feature-request_tht.Create a post titled “FEATURE REQUEST - Name of the Feature Request” and detailyour request including case number. These forums are monitored by our ProductManagers. This will allow other customers to voice their opinions as to whetherthey would find the feature useful.You may find "What we are working on" interesting:http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/43025"How To Create Ideas and Feature Requests"http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-167238"Ideation Process & FAQ"http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-167239Kind Regards,Gian Carlo BanaoSolarWinds Technical Support
Bump, just because it hurts my work soul that this isn't already in place
Bumping again! As a newcomer to SolarWinds, I couldn't believe that this isn't available!
This should be table stacks in an enterprise class monitoring system
Bump! Common guys!
Bumping Again!!!
Tuesday morning "How is this not implemented" bump
Super bump... Let's get this done!!!
Almost 2 years in! BUMP!
Message received! I'm definitely interested in implementing this one, but it's not something we're currently working on. Our next release will be focused on performance improvements, better localization, and device support. More to follow soon... That said, I've got some calls scheduled next week to explore this idea, and I'm considering adding it to the roadmap soon!
"...but it's not something we're currently working on..."
Gotta be honest here, Jason: Why? Solarwinds is behind the curve here, and after 2+ years, it shouldn't be "under consideration". It either warrants the resources to have done it by now, or it should be flagged as "we're not going to do this". Having this outstanding for this amount of time is curious at best and frustrating at worst.And for what it's worth, the performance improvement I could ask Solarwinds for the most right now is... the ability to schedule maintenance windows. Not having it costs me time and results in a poor experience for my team.
Thanks for listening.
jason.carrier Many thanks for taking the time to discuss this topic with me today! As you can tell there are a lot of passionate people in this community and knowing that the team at Solarwinds is listening is very cool. I look forward to continue collaborating together!
Cheers
Likewise, and you're very welcome!
This would be so usefull ! be able to plan a reccurring maintenance window.
typically we need to be able to delegate this easily to people who manager the server without the need to go to the SolarWinds to use the Unmanage Schedule Utiliy.
this should be considered as a basic/core feature of the SolarWinds products.
its been voted on for two years, not looking promising, this is essential feature for managing maintenance windows.
Still embarrassing this isn't implemented bump
jason.carrier Any chance this is making it into the upcoming releases? If yes, I'm going to sign up for the dev assisted upgrade. If not.... sad panda
I have to say, super disappointing in this not being implemented yet. We are looking at different monitoring solutions that provide this feature (it's not hard since they all do). It is simply too time consuming for us to constantly manually placing nodes in maintenance mode. Every time one of the Directors would ask me to "Just schedule re-occurring maintenance mode on this..." and I would tell them that we can't, I would get blank, confused stare and then I have to explain, why our enterprise monitoring solution does not have this basic feature.
Waited long enough...it's been fun Solarwinds....
It's not going to be in our next release, but I've got it included on NPMs roadmap. Look forward to sharing greater detail as soon as I'm able!
Chiming in with everyone else! This is a necessary feature.! We just bought our Solarwinds license, and had 20 server alerts yesterday due to Windows updates and reboots. My Boss complained, and I said "No prob, I will go in and schedule a reoccurring mute window." Imagine my surprise when I found out that it is impossible! This needs to be added ASAP. Then I notice this thread is 2 1/2 years old! And "...but it's not something we're currently working on..." is a really crappy answer, guys.
Upvoting (sigh)
Perhaps some of the best advice I've read: "Don't enable any alerts until you've determined they will tell you something important, and that you can take immediate action on the cause of the alerts to correct or prevent problems."
You could adjust those specific alerts to NOT send them to folks who don't need them. If only you receive them, that's better than them causing your boss headaches & questions.
adatole has written the book on not creating alerts if you don't need them, and not creating/enabling any alerts if they are not actionable.
There are great resources available to learn about creating and limiting (and NOT creating) alerts here:
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/search.jspa?q=alerts+adato
needs to handle multiple schedulesand MUTE and UN-MUTE options also.
Voted, this feature would be great!
Please please put this in, having to use the unmanage utility with windows task scheduler is a real pain
please have this added in next major release.. very much needed feature....
jason.carrier can we please get a status update. As you can tell from the continued “bumps” this would be a big win.
Sure thing. I agree this one would be a big win, and I'd love to get it built. When we talked internally about how much developer capacity it would consume, it was much more than I expected. There are some hindrances related to scheduling in our core architecture that need to be resolved first. It's still on my radar, but not something we're actively building at present.
I hear all your "bumps".
2020 new year hope bump!!
Still working on this?
bump
Running into an issue where we need to create maintenance windows within SolarWinds. Hoping I was able to do this I created a group for the nodes that are in this window but unfortunately this cannot be done from what I have found.
so yes, Bump
It's possible, but not easy. You need to use the API and Task Scheduler. I've got a write-up here: Unmanaging and suppressing alerts for applications - Scheduled recurring maintenance windows and there are a few others who have posted their solutions as well in the same forum.
Much needed in solarwind orion tool
2020 Marching toward schedule maintenance bump!
Is this on the roadmap yet? It is really needed.
Also allow multiple schedules to be applied to a node, group of nodes, WPM transaction, etc.
I need this. BUMP!
Need this too. so many votes so far, any news?
Bump!!! Sad this is not a feature!!!
T -2 months to hit the four year mark on this thread bump
Bump ?
BUMP
4 Year BUMP! and I can no longer @ Jason.carrier, has he left and this has been abandoned?
So I have been told that the "Unmanage Scheduling Utility" has been deprecated. So why is the recurring maintenance not configured in you new "schedule Maintenance" settings.
Any updates on this?
Is there any progress on recurring scheduled server maintenance. This is a must for simple things like Windows Updates on servers.
Upvoted, bump!
Please also add the possibility to add MULTIPLE recurring maintenance with the parameters you can find in any monitoring tool (daily, weekly, monthly etc ...). Also please add the same thing for GROUPS.
FYI on our side we are using custom props that are retrieved by a scheduled script which, then call the api to set the correct maintenance
I really hope this can make it into the next release.I don't care where you put it (drop down, node settings etc.).The fact that it hasn't been integrated into the web interface yet is amazing (in a bad way )The current Unmanage Scheduling Utility is cumbersome to work with and with new security requirements nearly unusable because the staff in our company that needs to set unmanage schedules can't have access to the server to setup the scheduled tasks.
Great to see this as WWWO
The maintenance schedule also needs to be smart and follow the calendar.
Feature Request: Conditional Maintenance Windows Based on Patch Tuesday
Summary: Request the ability to define recurring maintenance windows that are conditional on the occurrence of Microsoft Patch Tuesday.
Use and Need: In environments where maintenance activities are driven by the release of Microsoft security updates, it is essential to ensure maintenance windows occur only after Patch Tuesday. This feature would prevent premature maintenance cycles and align patching and validation processes. Specifically, we require maintenance windows (e.g., 2nd Friday of each month) to execute only if Patch Tuesday (2nd Tuesday of the month) has already occurred within that same month
Is this a duplicate, or overlap with [mention:2bc1871ca8c94bab94cda9e413653abf:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43] ?
I wouldn't say so. The node management rights mentioned relates mostly to user permissions.
