Creating a maintenace window for the last 'day' of the month

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written by SyedIslam)

Hi

I’m currently deploying IEM v9 for out patching regime. Unfortunately some of our servers have a maintenance window for the last ‘day’ of the month. All I have found when creating the windows is ‘day’ of first week, second week, third week and fourth week.

Am I miising something or is it more complex?

Thanks.

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written by jgstew

There does not appear to be a built in relevance check for last day of the month. Here is something that is incomplete:

if(current day_of_month as integer < 28) then false else if(current month as integer = 2) then /* check leap year and day / else if(current day_of_month as integer < 30) then false else / check months and ending days */

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written by SyedIslam

Was really after a last day of month in terms of; last Sunday of Month or last Thursday of Month etc?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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(imported comment written by jgstew)

So you are not looking for the absolute last day, but the last occurrence of a particular day of the week?

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written by SyedIslam

The last occurrence of a particular day of the month (rather than week).

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written by jgstew

This is what I came up with, which I think will work:
http://bigfix.me/relevance/details/2998771

I am checking if 1 week in the future is the first day_of_week of the next month. If so, then the current date is the last day_of_week of the current month. The example uses “friday” but you can exchange “friday” for any day of the week you desire.

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written by jgstew

Did this work for you?

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@jgstew

It worked for me!

Thanks

Bob_K