KBI 220533 Maintenance Schedules

Version

Argent Guardian 8.0A-0701

Date

23 Apr 2007

Summary

Maintenance schedules on servers that have been individually specified are overwritten when a Global Maintenance schedule is applied.

Technical Background

Mass selecting servers to apply maintenance schedules overwrites any existing maintenance schedule instead of adding to the existing schedule.

Example:

A server is configured to have a maintenance period as shown below:

Imagine this schedule is a routine schedule that happens at the end of the month.

Then multiple servers are selected to apply a special maintenance schedule as shown below:

This schedule is just a once off schedule from 10:00 to 11:00 only.

After mass selecting and adding a special schedule, any existing schedules are overwritten as shown below:

Notice the routine schedule for Argent-MaxL is not there anymore.

Resolution

An Issue Report has been logged to address this issue.