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Option Description
Monthly
Set the number of months between maintenance periods and either the day
of the month or the week and day.
Yearly
Set to a specific date or a specific month, day, and week.
6 Click OK to save the maintenance schedule.
The new maintenance schedule appears in the list in the Manage Maintenance Schedules window and is
available when you add or edit resources.
Start Maintenance Mode on a Resource
You can place one or more resources in maintenance mode.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Environment Overview.
2 On the List tab, select the resource or resources to place in maintenance mode.
You can press Ctrl+click to select multiple individual resources or Shift+click to select a range of resources.
3 Click the Start Maintenance icon.
4 Select how long to keep the resource in maintenance mode.
Option Action
I will come back and end
maintenance myself
Maintenance mode starts for the selected resource when you click OK. You
must manually end maintenance mode for the resource.
End Maintenance in
Type the number of minutes that the resource is in maintenance mode.
End Maintenance on
n
Type the date that maintenance mode stops in the text box, or click the
calendar icon and select a date.
n
Select the time that maintenance mode stops from the drop-down menu.
5 Click OK to save your changes.
The resource is now in maintenance mode. The Collection Status column shows either In Maintenance
(Manual) or In Maintenance till, depending on your selection.
Stop Maintenance Mode on a Resource
If a resource was in maintenance mode for an unspecified period of time, the only way to remove it and restart
metric collection is to manually stop maintenance mode. You can also stop maintenance mode for a resource
that was in maintenance mode for a specified period of time or that is in maintenance mode because of its
assigned maintenance schedule.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Environment Overview.
2 On the List tab, select the resource or resources on which to stop maintenance.
You can press Ctrl+click to select multiple individual resources or Shift+click to select range of resources.
3 Click the End Maintenance icon.
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