What do you do when a system goes down (besides run around screaming and waving your arms in the air)?
You’re looking at the navigation tree in USM, and you see that one of your groups is generating a critical alarm (
). Next thing you know, you receive an automatic email message about a system.
You browse to the system in the tree and click the System tab. You see that one of the metric charts has spiked and is displaying a critical alarm. You want to suppress alarms for this system and stop receiving alarm notifications while you run to the datacenter and fix it. What do you do?
Create an ad hoc maintenance schedule by clicking the wrench icon (
) in the upper right-hand corner of the system details. The Maintenance Schedule dialog opens and is prepopulated with the system you selected, and a start time five minutes from now. Update the maintenance window options to give yourself enough time to get past the velociraptors guarding the datacenter.
Click Save and run for it!
If you survive your mission to repair the failed system and want to turn off maintenance before the window ends, you can click the end maintenance icon (
).