Hi, Can anyone tell me, Can we keep the only alerts into maintenance mode not the entire server, I heard some were about that. But when i keep the alert into maintenance mode the entire server going to the maintenance mode. Any one aware of this? ThanksVishu

The maintenance is applied to an object level and not on alert level and you can put an object which generates an alert into maintenance mode. For example, DBA do a maintenance task on sql server and he wants to suppress an DB alert but we want to receive server alert such as high CPU and memory usage. We open the diagram view of the sql server and drag down into sql component such as sql db engine and put this entity into maintenance mode. Roger

You can put an entire computer and all the objects/classes on it into maintenance mode. This will suppress alerting, with maybe the exception of something like agent heartbeat missing, etc. You can also be very granular with alert suppression by maybe putting a class that a monitor is targeting into maintenance mode. So if you had a known issue with say an Exchange Mailbox server, for the Mailbox Role, you could put that CLASS into maintenance mode, but still get alerts from other classes belonging to other management packs, as well as perhaps other classes of Exchange that the server might hold. Can you put a monitor into maintenance mode? A rule? I don't believe so, but you can see what the monitor or the rule is targeting and put that specific instance or the entire class into maintenance mode. There maybe some caveats to this for virtual instances (think the Cluster MP and some of it's classes, as well as the Exchange 2010 MP and some of it's classes). Is this what you were asking about?Regards, Blake Email: mengotto<at>hotmail.com Blog: http://discussitnow.wordpress.com/ If my response was helpful, please mark it as so, if it answered your question, then please also mark it accordingly. Thank you.

Let me understand you guys my requirement, Storage team is doing some migration tasks, we are receiving bulk alerts on MP-disk error. and management doesn't want to keep the servers into maintenance mode as their tasks are running 2 - 3 days will causing flood of alerts and incidents. so thought of keeping the alerts into maintenance mode. any suggestions or guide me how to overcome on this. Thanks Vishu

Hi, If you have a disk management pack installed, I believe you can put the disk into maintenance mode. "we are receiving bulk alerts on MP-disk error" - which management pack are you using? Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Most likely the source of the alert are came from disk so put the disk into maintenance mode is the recommend way Open the alert which you want to suppress the alert and view the source of the alertcreate a group which contain the source of object which you want to place in a maintenance modeOpen the group in diagram viewput the group in maintenance mode Roger

Hi, "Can alerts only be keep into maintenance mode" The Answer is NO! you target maintenance mode at any object (not alerts) ..so you'll need define what objects need to be placed in maintenance mode.

Alexis is correct - you cannot put individual monitors into maintenance mode. Only classes can be targets for maintenance mode. There is the option of SCOM 2012 of using powershell to enable \ disable monitors on a schedule which would probably do what you want, albeit it would not be maintenance mode (so would not show up as maintenance in any reports you had configured). This could be configured as an Orchestrator workflow that is exposed by Service Manager (or by the Orchestrator web console).Regards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Alexis is correct - you cannot put individual monitors into maintenance mode. Only classes can be targets for maintenance mode. There is the option of SCOM 2012 of using powershell to enable \ disable monitors on a schedule which would probably do what you want, albeit it would not be maintenance mode (so would not show up as maintenance in any reports you had configured). This could be configured as an Orchestrator workflow that is exposed by Service Manager (or by the Orchestrator web console).Regards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/