Planned Downtimes / Maintenance
Introductioin
Maintenance work is commonplace in IT: updates need to be installed at 3 a.m., an important RAM upgrade is required during the day to improve server performance, or the nightly database backup can result in longer loading times. For such purposes, it is possible to set up planned maintenance work so that no notifications are sent during the maintenance work.
Time planning
Planned downtime can be configured for each host and service. An easy way to schedule downtime is via the host list and the action bar in the footer:
There are two variants: fixed times and recurring times.
Fixed time
A fixed time has an exact date and time, e.g.
Begin: 2024-11-01 16:00
End: 2024-11-01 17:00Please note that fixed downtimes are automatically deleted when they expire in order to clean up the database.
Recurring Times, timeslice
Recurring times, on the other hand, do not have a fixed date, but can occur daily or weekly, e.g.
Monday - Sunday 16:00 - 17:00The syntax for recurring times is quite simple:
Syntax: DAY RANGE TIME RANGE DAY RANGE EXAMPLES ------------------------------------------------------------ Weekday Monday Weekday - Weekday Monday - Friday Month Januar Month - Month Januar - July Month Day Januar 1 Month Day - Month Day Januar 1 - July 15 Year 2010 Year - Year 2010 - 2012 YYYY-MM-DD 2010-01-01 YYYY-MM-DD - YYYY-MM-DD 2010-01-01 - 2012-06-15 TIME RANGE EXAMPLES ------------------------------------------------------------ HH:MM - HH:MM 09:00 - 17:00 HH:MM - HH:MM, HH:MM - HH:MM 00:00 - 08:59, 17:01 - 23:59
Service Status
If a host or service has an active downtime, the status of the service is set to INFO. The service also receives the notice downtime:
