Maintenance Schedules
From time to time, you will need to perform routine tasks on your infrastructure that will render it unreachable or cause it to operate outside of the norm - upgrades, maintenance, etc. For that reason, we provide Maintenance Schedules - finite periods where you can instruct FortiMonitor's monitoring of your infrastructure to behave and react in special ways.
Creating custom Maintenance Schedules
Maintenance Schedules page
Each of the options below will open the same Create Maintenance Period drawer.
From the Maintenance Schedules page
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From the navigation menu, select Maintenance, then select Schedule & History.
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In the top left corner, select Add Maintenance.
From the Instance Details page
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Navigate to any instance in your account.
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Select Add Maintenance.
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Select Custom. The Immediate Maintenance options are discussed below.
From an instance group
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Navigate to an instance group in your account.
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Towards the top right, there's a block for Maintenance. Click the Add Maintenance button.
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Select Custom. The Immediate Maintenance options are discussed below.
Configure a Maintenance period
When configuring Maintenance, you can control the general handling of the maintenance period, the timing, and the scope of your infrastructure which it covers.
General configuration options
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Description |
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Maintenance Period Name |
The Maintenance Period name is displayed throughout the FortiMonitor control panel and can be anything of your choosing |
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Start Time |
The Start Time is the time at which the Maintenance Period should commence. If the Maintenance Period will be recurring (see Timing), it will always start at this specific time of day. |
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Timing |
Length of time, in minutes, that the Maintenance Period will last.
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Description |
A helpful way to communicate what the Maintenance Period covers and why it's being used. |
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Monitoring |
The options under Monitoring dictate how FortiMonitor monitors the specific infrastructure covered by the Maintenance.
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Options |
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Timing configuration options
By default, Maintenance is a one-time event. However, if you have recurring maintenance, you can use the recurring event option. Select the recurring option will present a set of scheduling controls similar to what you'd see in Gmail or Outlook.
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Option |
Description |
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Every n days |
Beginning on the day of your Maintenance start date, Maintenance will occur every n days from that point. |
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Every n weeks |
Beginning on the day of your Maintenance start date, Maintenance will occur on the selected days of the week, every n number of weeks. For example, use 1 for every week, 2 for every other week. |
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Every n months on the nth day of the month |
Every n number of months, on the date of the month that coincides with the date of your Start Date. For example, entering a start date of May 1st every 1 month will schedule Maintenance on the first day of every month. |
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Every n months on the nth day of the week of the month |
Every month, Maintenance will be created on the n day of the nth week. For example, setting a start date of May 1, 2019, which is the first Tuesday of May, will schedule Maintenance for the first Tuesday of every month. |
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Recurrence end date |
The recurring maintenance will end on this date. |
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Adjust for daylight savings |
Select a timezone if you want maintenance schedules to adapt to the timezone's daylight savings schedule. This option is used to adjust maintenance schedule start times based on the beginning and end of daylight savings time in the specified timezone. |
Scope configuration options
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Option |
Description |
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Impacted Instances |
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Impacted metrics |
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Immediate Maintenance
If you do not need to customize your Maintenance Period, you can invoke immediate maintenance from any instance or group.
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On the right side of the page, locate the Maintenance block.
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Click Add Maintenance.
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Select your desired duration.
Maintenance will begin immediately for your instance or group. Monitoring data will continue to report, but alerts will not be sent if an incident is identified.
Extend a Maintenance Schedule
To extend a maintenance period, perform the following:
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Navigate to any instance in your account.
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In the Details section of the page, locate the Maintenance block.
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Click the 3-dot menu and choose the duration of the extension.
End an existing maintenance
To end an existing maintenance, perform the following:
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Navigate to the instance.
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In the Details section of the page, locate the Maintenance block.
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Click the 3-dot menu of the active maintenance that you want to end then select End Maintenance.
