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Schedule recurring maintenance (unmanage) for nodes and groups

It would be extremely useful to have a function within Orion to schedule recurring maintenance windows for nodes and for groups of nodes.

Examples of use-case scenarios:

  • We have an application that restarts its services for nightly maintenance at 3:00 AM, and should be back up by 3:45 AM.
  • Don't send alerts for non-critical dev/test servers during off business hours (nights and weekends).
  • We have our servers patch on a rotating schedule, with our "Week 1" including non-production servers to be patched on the Sunday following Patch Tuesday. Our production servers are split into 3 groups ("Week {2-4}") that get patched on subsequent Sunday evenings.

As far as I can tell, our only option for achieving this is still (SAM 6.7) to create an SWQL script to unmanage/remanage nodes and run it with Windows Task Scheduler.

sturdyerde
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  • I agree that this would be nice to have in the Web-GUI.

    last Time I had to do this, there was the „unmanage-utility“ on the Orion Core Server. It created the script for you and I believe also set up the scheduled task.

    did you check if this option is still there?

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  • I agree that this would be nice to have in the Web-GUI.

    last Time I had to do this, there was the „unmanage-utility“ on the Orion Core Server. It created the script for you and I believe also set up the scheduled task.

    did you check if this option is still there?

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  • in reply to HerrDoktor

    The unmanage utility still exists, but looks and acts like it was last updated a decade ago. It also is not desirable to have to depend on the Windows Task Scheduler engine (another potential point of failure), using reversible credentials in the script, and having to save credentials in the scheduled task as well. (In the meantime, I'll be testing the possibility of using a Managed Service Account to run the scheduled task.)

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