Best Practices Tour for the Management Mode Workspace

This Best Practices Tour describes how NNMi administrators and Level 2 Operators can use the Management Mode workspace for scheduled maintenance.

Each of the views in the Management Mode workspace provides a set of objects that currently have a Management Mode of either Not Managed or Out of Service: Concept Link IconSee Also

Possible objects include nodes, interfaces, IP addresses, chassis, cards, node sensors (for example buffers. CPU, disks, memory), and physical sensors (for example backplane, fan, power, temperature, voltage). To view the list of possible attribute values for any table column in the view, right-click the column heading and select Filter. Then select Create Filter. NNMi displays each possible attribute value.

When the Management Mode is set to Not Managed or Out of Service, NNMi stops polling the specified object and no incidents are generated. Use Not Managed when you want to stop managing a node for reasons other than scheduled maintenance. Use Out of Service for those nodes that are temporarily out of service. See Understand the Effects of Setting the Management Mode to Not Managed or Out of Service.

To set the Management Mode for an object:

  1. Navigate to the view of interest (for example Nodes view under the Inventory workspace).
  2. Double-click the row representing the object of interest.
  3. In the object form, navigate to the Management Mode drop-down list and select the new Management Mode:

    • When you select the Not Managed or Out of Service Management Mode, NNMi adds the object to the Management Mode view for that object type. See Stop or Start Managing an Object and How NNMi Users Change a Management Mode.

      Tip Remember to reconfigure the Management Mode of those objects that are no longer out of service. To do so, double-click the row representing the object of interest and reset the Management Mode to Managed.

    • You can also schedule a time for NNMi to automatically change the management mode to Out of Service for a specific time period. See Schedule Outages for Nodes or Node Groups.