How to Create a Maintenance Window for a Collection

Article
05/03/2011

Applies To: System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

Your application can create a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 maintenance window by using the SMS_CollectionSettings Server WMI Class and SMS_ServiceWindow Server WMI Class classes and properties.

To create a maintenance window

Set up a connection to the SMS Provider. For more information, see About the SMS Provider in Configuration Manager.
Get the existing collection settings instance by using the supplied collection ID.
Create and populate the properties of a new service window object by using the SMS_ServiceWindow Server WMI Class class.
Add the new SMS_ServiceWindow object to the collection settings instance obtained earlier.
Save the collection settings instance and properties.

Note

The example below includes additional steps, primarily to handle the overhead of dealing with the maintenance window objects, which are stored as embedded objects in the collection settings instance.

Example

The following example method creates a maintenance window for a collection, assuming that the collection instance can modified. This might not be the case at child sites, where the collections are owned by the parent site(s).

For information about calling the sample code, see Calling Configuration Manager Code Snippets.

Sub CreateMaintenanceWindow(connection,                                 _
                            targetCollectionID,                         _
                            newMaintenanceWindowName,                   _
                            newMaintenanceWindowDescription,            _
                            newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowSchedules, _
                            newMaintenanceWindowIsEnabled,              _
                            newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowType)
                                       
    ' Build a query to get the specified collection. 
     collectionSettingsQuery = "SMS_CollectionSettings.CollectionID='" & targetCollectionID & "'"
     
    ' Get the collection settings instance for the targetCollectionID.
    Set allCollectionSettings = connection.ExecQuery("Select * From SMS_CollectionSettings Where CollectionID = '" & targetCollectionID & "'")
   
    ' If a collection settings instance doesn't exist for the target collection, create one.
    If allCollectionSettings.Count = 0 Then
        Wscript.Echo "Creating collection settings instance."
        Set collectionSettingsInstance = connection.Get("SMS_CollectionSettings").SpawnInstance_
        collectionSettingsInstance.CollectionID = targetCollectionID
        collectionSettingsInstance.Put_
    End If  
    
    ' Get the specific collection settings instance.
    Set collectionSettingsInstance = connection.Get("SMS_CollectionSettings.CollectionID='" & targetCollectionID &"'" )
               
    ' Create and populate a temporary SMS_ServiceWindow object with the new maintenance window values. 
    Set tempServiceWindowObject = connection.Get("SMS_ServiceWindow").SpawnInstance_
             
    ' Populate temporary SMS_ServiceWindow object with the new maintenance window values.
    tempServiceWindowObject.Name = newMaintenanceWindowName
    tempServiceWindowObject.Description = newMaintenanceWindowDescription
    tempServiceWindowObject.ServiceWindowSchedules = newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowSchedules
    tempServiceWindowObject.IsEnabled = newMaintenanceWindowIsEnabled
    tempServiceWindowObject.ServiceWindowType = newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowType
    
    ' Populate the local array list with the existing service window objects (from the target collection).
    tempServiceWindowArray = collectionSettingsInstance.ServiceWindows
  
    ' Add the newly created service window object to the temporary array.
    ReDim Preserve tempServiceWindowArray (Ubound(tempServiceWindowArray) + 1)
    Set tempServiceWindowArray(Ubound(tempServiceWindowArray)) = tempServiceWindowObject
    
    ' Replace the existing service window objects from the target collection with the temporary array that includes the new service window.
    collectionSettingsInstance.ServiceWindows = tempServiceWindowArray
    
    ' Save the collection settings instance with the new service window object.
    collectionSettingsInstance.Put_
    
    ' Output success message.
    wscript.echo "New Maintenance Window created."

End Sub

public void CreateMaintenanceWindow(WqlConnectionManager connection, 
                                    string targetCollectionID, 
                                    string newMaintenanceWindowName, 
                                    string newMaintenanceWindowDescription, 
                                    string newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowSchedules, 
                                    bool newMaintenanceWindowIsEnabled, 
                                    int newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowType)
{
    try
    {
        // Create an object to hold the collection settings instance (used to check whether a collection settings instance exists). 
        IResultObject collectionSettingsInstance = null;

        // Get the collection settings instance for the targetCollectionID.
        IResultObject allCollectionSettings = connection.QueryProcessor.ExecuteQuery("Select * from SMS_CollectionSettings where CollectionID='" + targetCollectionID + "'");
        
        // Enumerate the allCollectionSettings collection (there should be just one item) and save the instance.
        foreach (IResultObject collectionSetting in allCollectionSettings)
        {
            collectionSettingsInstance = collectionSetting;
        }

        // If a collection settings instance doesn't exist for the target collection, create one.
        if (collectionSettingsInstance == null)
        {
            collectionSettingsInstance = connection.CreateInstance("SMS_CollectionSettings");
            collectionSettingsInstance["CollectionID"].StringValue = targetCollectionID;
            collectionSettingsInstance.Put();
            collectionSettingsInstance.Get();
        }

        // Create a new array list to hold the service window object.
        List<IResultObject> tempServiceWindowArray = new List<IResultObject>();

        // Create and populate a temporary SMS_ServiceWindow object with the new maintenance window values.
        IResultObject tempServiceWindowObject = connection.CreateEmbeddedObjectInstance("SMS_ServiceWindow");

        // Populate temporary SMS_ServiceWindow object with the new maintenance window values.
        tempServiceWindowObject["Name"].StringValue = newMaintenanceWindowName;
        tempServiceWindowObject["Description"].StringValue = newMaintenanceWindowDescription;
        tempServiceWindowObject["ServiceWindowSchedules"].StringValue = newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowSchedules;
        tempServiceWindowObject["IsEnabled"].BooleanValue = newMaintenanceWindowIsEnabled;
        tempServiceWindowObject["ServiceWindowType"].IntegerValue = newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowType;

        // Populate the local array list with the existing service window objects (from the target collection).
        tempServiceWindowArray = collectionSettingsInstance.GetArrayItems("ServiceWindows");

        // Add the newly created service window object to the local array list.
        tempServiceWindowArray.Add(tempServiceWindowObject);

        // Replace the existing service window objects from the target collection with the temporary array that includes the new service window.
        collectionSettingsInstance.SetArrayItems("ServiceWindows", tempServiceWindowArray);

        // Save the new values in the collection settings instance associated with the target collection.
        collectionSettingsInstance.Put();
    }
    catch (SmsException ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Failed. Error: " + ex.InnerException.Message);
        throw;
    }
}

The example method has the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
connection swebemServices	Managed: WqlConnectionManager VBScript: SWbemServices	A valid connection to the SMS Provider.
targetCollectionID	Managed: String VBScript: String	The ID of the collection.
newMaintenanceWindowName	Managed: String VBScript: String	The name of the new maintenance window.
newMaintenanceWindowDescription	Managed: String VBScript: String	The description of the new maintenance window.
newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowSchedules	Managed: String VBScript: String	The service schedules for the new maintenance window.
newMaintenanceWindowIsEnabled	Managed: Boolean VBScript: Boolean	true if the new maintenance window is enabled.
newMaintenanceWindowServiceWindowType	Managed: Integer VBScript: Integer	Type for the new maintenance window.

Compiling the Code

The C# example requires:

Namespaces

System

System.Collections.Generic

System.ComponentModel

Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider

Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider.WqlQueryEngine

Assembly

adminui.wqlqueryengine

microsoft.configurationmanagement.managementprovider

Robust Programming

For more information about error handling, see About Configuration Manager Errors.

Security

For more information about securing Configuration Manager applications, see Securing Configuration Manager Applications.

Share via

How to Create a Maintenance Window for a Collection

To create a maintenance window

Example

Compiling the Code

Namespaces

Assembly

Robust Programming

Security

See Also

Reference

Concepts

Additional resources