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.
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