Scheduled Downtime

  • Scheduled Downtime

    Posted by pmcdaid on noviembre 19, 2013 at 08:11

    Here are some suggestions for improving the Schedule Downtime capability and user experience, based on v5.0SP1 – Build PC131117:
    1. Add or move Schedule Downtime to the Operations section. This is an operations function, not really an administrative function.  Currently I am having to open up the user profile for operators that schedule downtime to include Administrative functions. Not a good situation.
    2. In help for scheduled downtime, add a description of ‘Type’. In particular, I am not understanding what ‘Quiet’ means. The others are self explanatory.
    3. In the second page of the scheduled downtime there is a help popup on ‘Available Modules’ that states: ‘Only quiet type in modules’. I do not understand what this means. Clarification needed.
    4. In the modules list the top item is ‘Any’. I suggest renaming this to ‘All’. This applies to many other list selections across Pandora FMS, by the way.
    5. Once a module has been selected for the list, there is the capability to add additional modules. (Nice addition!) However, the top element is None. If selected it give a message to select a module. This is not very useful item in the list. Instead, I suggest removing ‘None’ and replacing it with ‘All’. That would be useful!
    6.Regards inconsistency of what is Operations and Administration,  under Operations >> Extensions there is the Update Manager to upgrade the console software on the server. This should be under Administration >> Extensions instead, in my opinion. Operations should not be able to upgrade server software.

    monty617 replied 10 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Mario

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    noviembre 25, 2013 at 16:05
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    Hi

    Thank you for your suggestions.

    I’ll explain the doubts you have.

    . 2 – Quiet Mode (Disable modules and alerts)
    . 3 – You can only disable modules in Quiet Mode, on the other 2 options alerts agents or agents are disabled.

    Regarding the Operations and Administration options we will consider it.

    Thank you very much again

  • monty617

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    marzo 5, 2014 at 17:36
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    Would also suggest that periodic timeframe can span days. When setting up downtime for backups that run from 11PM-2AM system requires that we create 2 separate downtime instances to cover that period.