Maintenance schedules

Maintenance schedules can be used to specify planned or periodical maintenance of an object or a monitor. During the maintenance period no monitors will be tested. Maintenance schedules can be either a single maintenance period or a repeating period with many flexible scheduling options.

3.7.2.1 Listing maintenance schedules

To list all maintenance schedules, select the Maintenance schedules menu item from the Schedules menu.

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The Maintenance schedules list view will appear.

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All maintenance schedules are listed with the date, time and length of the maintenance period, as well as the relevant objects for the schedule.

Commands

In the upper section of the Maintenance list view, a number of commands are listed. These commands will affect maintenance schedules that are selected in the list only.

Delete Deletes the selected maintenance schedules. The operator will have to confirm the delete operation.

New Creates a new maintenance schedule.

Selecting maintenance schedules

To select maintenance schedules from the list place a check marker in the selection column to the left. It's also possible to select a range of schedules by first clicking on the start position in the list, then hold the shift key and click on the end position. All the maintenance schedules in between the selected positions will be selected.

3.7.2.2 Adding a maintenance schedule

To add a new maintenance schedule, click on the "New" command from the maintenance schedule list view . The maintenance properties page will appear. For information about the maintenance properties page and details about editing maintenance schedules, see the

Editing a maintenance schedule section.

After all needed information has been entered, click on the "Save" button and the new maintenance schedule will be created

3.7.2.3 Editing a maintenance schedule

To edit the properties of a maintenance schedule, click on the properties icon from the

maintenance schedule list view . The maintenance properties page will be opened.

The maintenance properties page

This page consists of several sections:

Maintenance settings

In this section, the settings for the maintenance period as well as which objects to place in maintenance is defined.

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Select objects - To select objects to include in the maintenance schedule, first select

the relevant network where the object is located, then select one or more objects from the list and click the "Select" button. The object(s) will be added to the selected objects list. To remove an object from the maintenance schedule, select it and click on the "Remove" button.

Select monitor - To select specific monitors to be included in the maintenance

schedule, first select the relevant object where the monitor is located, then select one or more monitors from the list and click the "Select" button. The monitor(s) will be added to the selected monitors list. To remove a monitor from the maintenance schedule, select it and click on the "Remove" button.

Time - Specify the time of the day when to start the maintenance period.

Downtime - Specify the length of the maintenance period in hours and minutes. Expires - If selected, the maintenance schedule will be automatically deleted once the

maintenance period is over.

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Single maintenance schedules

A maintenance schedule can be either a single "run-once" or a repeated schedule. To configure a single maintenance schedule, it's necessary to specify this in the single maintenance section.

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Single maintenance - To specify a single maintenance schedule, select the radio

button and fill in the date field.

Date - Specifies the date to activate the maintenance schedule. Specify the date in the

YYYY-MM-DD form.

Repeating maintenance schedules

To configure a repeating maintenance schedule, it's necessary to specify this in the repeated maintenance section.

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Repeated maintenance - To specify a repeating maintenance schedule, select the

radio button and fill in the required options below.

Active between - Specifies a date range in which the maintenance schedule will be

active. Specify the range in YYYY-MM-DD form. If these fields are left empty the maintenance schedule will always be active.

Day of week- By checking a day, the maintenance schedule will be active on the

selected days of the week only.

Every N:th day - If specified, the maintenance schedule will be active on every N'th day

from the specified start date. This option requires that the maintenance schedule has an active date range specified.

Last in month - To have the maintenance schedule active the last day in every month,

check this option.

Days in month - To have the maintenance schedule active on specific days in the

month, specify those days separated with a comma.

After all the required information has been entered click on the Save button to store your changes, or the Cancel button to return to the previous page without making any changes.

3.7.2.4 Searching for maintenance schedules

It is possible to search for single maintenance schedules by entering a specific date in YYYY- MM-DD format in INMs search bar. A maximum of 5 maintenance schedules will be

displayed.

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To edit the maintenance schedule, simply click on it from the search result window.