Scheduling Groups of Objects for Maintenance Mode

OpsMgr: Modified Brian's Scheduled Maintenance Mode MP

Andrzej's "IT Thoughts" Weblog — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:18:08 GMT

Together with my colleague Marek Kuzminski, we have slightly modified Brian's scheduled maintenance mode

Update to the Maintenance Mode Sample MP

BWren's Management Space — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:59:32 GMT

Andrzej Lipka, a fellow consultant in Poland, took my maintenance mode sample MP and added some interesting

re: Scheduling Groups of Objects for Maintenance Mode

WillKaiser — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:49:25 GMT

A very eloquent and useful solution to a major shortcoming of SCOM. I just imported this and tested it in my evironment successfully. Your configuration steps were spot on.

This also answers a number of questions I had about running a powershell command from a rule.

Great work!

re: Scheduling Groups of Objects for Maintenance Mode

AlanZ — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:32:00 GMT

The MP does not work if the group includes agent objects. Looks like the following method does not recurse for Agent objects:

$group.ScheduleMaintenanceMode($startTime,$endTime,"PlannedOther",$Description,"Recursive")

Also I had to use a group name without spaces.