Do your SCOM users need to know if a server is in scheduled maintenance? This came about as Aris asked questions.
First, let’s discuss specific maintenance mode and maintenance schedule scenarios users might ask. Second, determining IF scheduled maintenance enabled, running, about to run. Third, how does another user know when scheduled maintenance ends, allowing action and decision point to add/extend server maintenance. Fourth, whenever scheduled maintenance entered by one user, is NOT automatically seen by other roles. While product guidance states ‘mainelf-service users still need visibility. Lastly, can we figure out a way to answer these questions. Given these points, users to be able to see
From PowerShell on SCOM MS
Get-SCOMMaintenanceScheduleList
$ScheduleList = Get-SCOMMaintenanceScheduleList
$ScheduleList.ID
$ScheduleList.ScheduleID.Guid
foreach ( $ID in $ScheduleList.ScheduleID)
{
$Schedule = get-SCOMMaintenanceSchedule -ID $ID
# $Schedule.MonitoringObjects ;
(get-scomclassInstance -id $Schedule.MonitoringObjects.Guid).DisplayName
# Debug endtime
$Schedule | ft User,ActiveStartTime,ActiveEndDate,ScheduledEndTime
}
Example Output
Workflows:
Scheduled Maintenance report task
Maintenance mode report – what’s about to end maintenance mode.
Obviously, expect both workflows into the ‘Proactive NOSC DailyTasks’ pack. GitHub repo https://github.com/theKevinJustin/ProactiveNOSCDailyTasks
SCOM 2022 Get-SCOMMaintenanceSchedule List syntax https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/operationsmanager/get-scommaintenanceschedulelist?view=systemcenter-ps-2022 2019 here