Maintenance Windows
Maintenance Windows is a standard configuration interface to configure device-based maintenance windows. Specifying maintenance windows allows for special rules processing for events during the window, but this functionality needs to be enabled in the rules for the application.
Refer to the Standard Configuration Interface guide for details on interacting with the grid and form.
This user interface calls REST methods from api/device/windows.
The UI path for this interface is Configuration -> Device Catalog -> Maintenance Windows.
Form Fields
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Name - The name of the maintenance window.
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Description - The description of the maintenance window.
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Start Date/Time - The start date and time of the maintenance window.
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Stop Date/Time - The stop date and time of the maintenance window.
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Devices - The devices that will be in the maintenance window.
Best Practices
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Maintenance Window processing needs to be enabled in the rules files. The Syslogd and Trapd aggregators base.load file has a commented example, and also has the instructions to implement the changes in the rules. Once the changes are done to 'base.rules' and 'base.load', the application must be restarted.
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If modifying an already started Maintenance Window, it may take Standard Threshold Engine up to 15 minutes to see the changes. Other applications must be restarted to see the changes.