Why not use a dmd script in order to activate / deactivate monitoring templates or simply change Production State during these hours.

This dmd script can be executed as a cronjob.

Also, you might miss important data if you stop your monitoring during the most important hours. Maybe, you should focus on KPIs and remove useless data that would put a strain on your devices.

Use device administration under details. This is like running cron job.

Thanks,

kr

I think you can put the devices in decommsioned in device administrationunder that time frame so that no polling happens.

If you do not want polling to happen, then set the group of devices to decommissioned state using your script. Also put them back to Production when you want them in monitoring using the same script.

TheonlyProductionStatethatautomaticallystopsallmonitoringis Decommissioned; however,thezPropertyof zProdStateThreshold canbesetaspartofthe ConfigurationProperties ofadeviceordeviceclass.Thisvariablecontrolsthe ProductionStatevaluebeneathwhichallmonitoringceases.Bydefaultthisvalueis 300 whichmeansthatsettingaProductionStateof Maintenance does not preventping andsnmpmonitoring.IfyouwanttopreventallmonitoringforMaintenancestate devices,changethe zProdStateThreshold valueatthetopdeviceclasslevelto 301.

An alternative some people use is to create a new production state (from ADVANCED -> Settings -> State Conversions), and call it Unmonitored, whose value is less than the default zProdStateThreshold - 299 would work perfectly well. Then use the Unmonitored prod state as the target state in a maintenance window.

Cheers,

Jane

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