Schedule Outages for Nodes or Node Groups

NNMi Administrators and Level-2 Operators can configure Scheduled Outages. During the specified Scheduled Outage time period, NNMi changes the Node Management Mode to  Out-of-Service and suspends any Discovery or Monitoring of that Node. When the specified time period ends, NNMi changes the Node Management Mode to  Managed, gathers current information, and updates the Node data.

Prerequisite: Understand the Effects of Setting the Management Mode to Not Managed or Out of Service

For a list of all past, present, and future Scheduled Node Outages, see the Scheduled Node Outages View.

(NNMi Advanced) If the Global Network Management feature is enabled and you are signed into a Global Manager:

• If the Node is managed by the Global Manager = applying Actions → Management Mode → Schedule Node Outage modifies the Node object in the Global Manager's database. The information is not sent to any Regional Manager.

• If the Node is managed by a Regional Manager = you must first use Actions → Open from Regional Manager prior to scheduling the outage on Regional Manager that is responsible for this Node. Any resulting change in a Node's Management Mode is communicated to the Global Manager.

  You must sign into that Regional Manager unless your network environment enables Single Sign-On (SSO) to that Regional Manager through the Global Manager.

To configure a past, present, or future scheduled outage using a Node view:

1. Navigate to the Node view of interest.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Select the table row or map icon that represents the Node of interest.
   • Use Ctrl-click to select multiple Nodes.

3. Select Actions → Management Mode → Schedule Node Outage in the main toolbar.

   You can also right-click any object in a table or map view to access the items available within the Actions menu.
4. Specify your choices in the Schedule Node Outage dialog. See Scheduled Node Outage Attributes in the table below.

5. Save your settings:

   • If the Scheduled Outage is in the future, click the Schedule Outage button to apply your changes.
   • If making a record of a Scheduled Outage in the past, click the Record a Past Outage button to apply your changes.

To configure a past, present, or future scheduled outage using a Node Group view:

1. Navigate to the Node Group view of interest.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Select the table row or map icon that represents the Node Group of interest.
   • Use Ctrl-click to select multiple Node Groups.

3. Select Actions → Management Mode → Schedule Group Members Outage in the main toolbar.

   You can also right-click any object in a table or map view to access the items available within the Actions menu.
4. Specify your choices in the Schedule Node Outage dialog. See Scheduled Node Outage Attributes in the table below.

5. Save your settings:

   • If the Scheduled Outage is in the future, click the Scheduled Outage button to apply your changes.
   • If making a record of a Scheduled Outage in the past, click the Record a Past Outage button to apply your changes.

To configure a past, present, or future scheduled outage using an Incidents view:

1. Navigate to the Incident view of interest.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Select one Incident.
   • Use Ctrl-click to select multiple Incidents.

3. Select Actions → Node Actions → Management Mode → Schedule Node Outage in the main toolbar.

   You can also right-click any object in a table or map view to access the items available within the Actions menu.
4. Specify your choices in the Schedule Node Outage dialog. See Scheduled Node Outage Attributes in the table below.

5. Save your settings:

   • If the Scheduled Outage is in the future, click the Scheduled Outage button to apply your changes.
   • If making a record of a Scheduled Outage in the past, click the Record a Past Outage button to apply your changes.

For the command line method of configuring a Scheduled Node Outage, see the nnmscheduledoutage.ovpl Reference Page.

Scheduled Node Outage Attributes

Attribute		Description
Enabled		- Indicates that at the scheduled time, NNMi will run this Scheduled Outage configuration.  - Indicates that at the scheduled time, NNMi will skip this Scheduled Outage configuration.
Name		Type a maximum of 50 characters. Alpha-numeric, spaces, and special characters (~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _+ -) are permitted. Optional best practice, choose a name identifying the Scheduled Outage that is unique. The name can communicate the purpose of the Scheduled Outage to your team.
Description		Communicate with your team by providing a description of this scheduled outage. Maximum length is 2,000 characters: alpha-numeric, spaces, and special characters (~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _+ -
Start	Date	Select the date from the calendar indicating when NNMi will run this Scheduled Outage.
	Time	Type or select the time from the drop-down indicating when NNMi will run this Scheduled Outage.
End	Date	Select the date from the calendar indicating when NNMi will end this Scheduled Outage.
	Time	Type or select the time from the drop-down indicating when NNMi will end this Scheduled Outage.
Time Zone	Use Server Time Zone	- Indicates that the NNMi server's Time Zone determines this Scheduled Outage configuration's start/stop time.  - Indicates that the NNMi administrator prefers to designate a specific time zone for the start/stop time (see the Specify Time Zone attribute).
	Specify Time Zone	Use the drop-down list to select a Time Zone for this Scheduled Outage configuration (default is the NNMi server's time zone). Some time zones have multiple industry-standard name choices, all appear in the drop-down list. To make NNMi automatically default to the one your team uses, see Network Node Manager i Software Deployment Reference,"NNMi Console" chapter. The list of valid Java Time Zones changes over time. To check NNMi's current Java Time Zone version number, on the server where NNMi is installed, use the following command line tool (see About Environment Variables for more information): Windows: %NnmInstallDir%\jdk\hpsw\bin\java –version Linux: $NnmInstallDir/jdk/hpsw/bin/java –version
List of Nodes	Hostname	Use to add Nodes to this Scheduled Outage configuration. Use to remove Nodes from this Scheduled Outage configuration.
	Time Zone	Displays the configured Time Zone if other than the NNMi Server Time Zone. The NNMi administrator creates a Custom Attribute to populate this column. For details, see Custom Node Attributes Form. If you don't see a Time Zone setting for a node that already has this Custom Attribute: com.hp.nnm.topo.TZ, look for the following message in the nnm.log file: Node <Node name, hostname, management address or UUID>/<Management.Address> has invalid TimeZone value: <value>. NNMi stores the log files in the following directory (see About Environment Variables for more information): %g = represents the archive number of the archived log file Windows: %NnmDataDir%\log\nnm\nnm.log.%g Linux: $NnmDataDir/log/nnm/nnm.log.%g For more information, see the "NNMi Logging" chapter in the Network Node Manager i Software Deployment Reference, which is available at: https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/.)