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Blacking out bunch of servers in a single shot

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:33 am
by mi6agent
Hi,

If I am performing a change request on 100 servers. Can I black out all the 100 servers in a single shot to avoid critical alerts and also to exclude the time from availability reports? Please advise the available options.

Regards,

Ravi

Re: Blacking out bunch of servers in a single shot

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 10:41 am
by hsmith
You can use the 'Mass Acknowledge' tool on the home page to schedule downtime for more than one machine.

Re: Blacking out bunch of servers in a single shot

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 10:46 am
by rkennedy
To add to what @hsmith said - it will only allow you to mass schedule downtime for hosts that are currently down. I submitted a feature request to have this changed earlier this week.

If they are all in the same host group, you can navigate to Home -> Hostgroup Summary -> Click the 'terminal' icon (View Hostgroup Commands)