Dashboard that allows users to specify maintenance window configuration based on date, week of month, day of week, or even offset from specific week and day of the month (i.e. 2 days after “patch Tuesday”)
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Could I request the ability to support two separate maintenance schedules for servers to be maintained at the same time?
Use Case:
Organization has policy that all Critical updates be applied in 72hrs, but Important is within 10 days of availability.
Today we have to set the schedule for the first week of Critical, then remove the schedule after its run, and then set the schedule for Important.
I am sure there are other use cases where organizations have separate OS and 3rd party schedules, etc.
for ease of use and ability to know the schedule it would be nice to have a separate “Maintenance” parameter for the 2nd window to know when it is in Maintenance window or not.
Our current maintenance window dashboard supports multiple weeks/days a month but if I am understanding you correctly, you are referring to having 2 (or more) separate sets of maintenance window values for each system. This would also mean 2 (or more) different retrieved properties etc.
We could certainly add something like that in a new version of this dashboard (especially if there is demand for something like this).