Unmanage and Re-manage mulitple nodes

[abishek.dhavala]

Hello Everyone,

Is there any way to unmanage and re-manage multiple nodes? May be from the tool or by using powershell script.

Thanks,

Abhishek

[serena]

Hi! When you're typically un-managing these entities are you doing this for a maintenance window? What are you doing this for

[abishek.dhavala]

Yes its for maintainance

[shawndiaz]

We simply place nodes in groups relative to their purpose and tick one box to unmanage / remanage all at once. Look into Custom Properties and create a Group for the nodes you need to bulk manage.

[mgaciarz]

It sounds like you're talking about using a custom property called "Group" rather than the Groups built into SolarWinds, yeah?  I have a group set up that includes all nodes from a dynamic query and am hoping to modify maintenance mode on that group.

[abishek.dhavala]

Oh!! Got it. That Helps! Thanks Shawndiaz

[goodzhere]

This is what you are looking for.

SW PowerShell Bulk Unmanage API script

[bobmarley]

Save this as .ps1 and run it. This will use your AD credentials to authenticate to your Orion server and unmanage a node named NODEYOUWANTTOUNMANAGE for 10 minutes from now.

Add-PSSnapin SwisSnapin

$swis = Connect-Swis -host YOURORIONSERVER -Trusted

$nodeid = Get-SwisData $swis "SELECT NodeID FROM Orion.Nodes WHERE SysName LIKE 'NODEYOUWANTTOUNMANAGE'"

$now =[DateTime ]:: Now

$later =$now.AddMinutes(10)

Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.Nodes Unmanage @("N: $nodeid ", $now ,$later , "false")

[abishek.dhavala]

Thanks a lot for it. Just to confirm I need to give the Orion sever FQDN (YOURORIONSERVER) and I should give multiple node names here ('NODEYOUWANTTOUNMANAGE') in comma separated values?

What Powershell version is required for this,  Because i get Snap-in error as below

[bobmarley]

You need the install the plugin Releases · solarwinds/OrionSDK · GitHub

The information about SWIS is here GitHub - solarwinds/OrionSDK: SDK for the SolarWinds Orion platform, including tools, documentation,...

There are a lot of examples here on THWACK. The script should work once you get the plugin installed.

[i_like_eggs]

Here is a good amount of information using the SolarWinds SDK https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/62160

[dave_ent]

I have had the best luck with the SDK.  I have lag issues when trying to put too many nodes in maintenance at once using the GUI.

[mohitonline]

Hi

Solarwinds  Unmanage Utility is already available.

Please refer the below link:-

Scheduling Unmanage Task for Nodes, Interfaces and Applications - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help an...

Regards

Mohit

[superfly]

Just open Manage Nodes. Tick the box for the nodes you want and then click on Maintenance Mode and select Unmanage. Do the same to remanage them.

[grantallenby]

Just to follow on. this is what the screen will look like. Tick as many as you want and then select the highlighted "unmanage now"

[abishek.dhavala]

Thanks Guys for all your Help..

Yes, I'm aware of the above options which you provided. I feel this becomes hard for me when i have to unmanage/re-manage more 10 nodes at a time. I need to go search for them if i have 100's of nodes. So i'm looking for any other options which makes this little simpler

[prashantsingh]

you may be using custom property and can identify the nodes using custom property ,from manage nodes page you can select them based on custom property and unmanage/remanage as required.

[abishek.dhavala]

Thank You Prashant. Can you give me an example how can we create the custom property for this scenario.

[prashantsingh]

Abishek,

Please use following links for using custom property:

Create a custom property

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/announcements/blog/2015/10/01/custom-pr...