SCOM; scheduled maintenance mode for a specific monitor in the health explorer

Question

since SCOM2016 there is an integrated scheduled maintenance mode.
as far as i know, you can schedule discovered objects / classes set in to maintenance mode.

but is it possible so schedule a maintenance mode for a specific monitor from the health explorer?

for example:
we are using WSUS and for some maintenance reasons we have to stop the download-synch for a few days. now the WSUS-management-pack will alert with the monitors "catalog synchronization" and "content synchronization" because they are out of synch.

is there a possiblity to put just these two monitors in maintenance mode with the scheduler? because all other services have to run and are important to monitor (putting the whole server or all wsus-objects into maintenance mode seems to be the only "workaround")

Answer 1

Hi @Sandro D'Incà ,

The Maintenance Mode is not targeted at individial monitors, but rather to a class as you already mentioned. So what you need to to is the following:

• Check which class are both monitors targeted at. This is easily seen in the properties of the monitor. Example:

• Afterwards, you can go to Monitoring, Discovered Inventory and select the same class to check which objects belong to it:

Those are th eobjects, which you can configure within your MM schedule, so that those do not alert.
You can do the absolutely same thing with the "content synchronization" monitor and its target. Then you have covered it all.

I hope I could be of help.

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Stoyan