Quick note: OpsMgr 2016 scheduled Maintenance overwrites manual Maintenance duration

In case you are not already aware of this:
When you use the cool new scheduled Maintenance feature  in OpsMgr 2016 for an object, it will overwrite any existing Maintenance duration for this object!

Let me show you a brief example:

In my lab I will place a server into a longer maintenance duration for several days (e.g. for a long term hardware maintenance):

Now imagine that somebody creates a shorter, scheduled Maintenance (in my exmple: 15 min) for this particular server (directly or via a group), e.g. for a weekly Maintenance window :

Once the scheduled maintenance task has been running...

... the maintenance window on our server has been reset to the time frame of the scheduled maintenance task and the original duration has been overwritten:

Please keep in mind:

The scheduled Maintenance mode will NOT check if an object is already in Maintenance. It simply overwrites the existing Maintenance duration with its own duration.

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 06, 2017
  Hi Dirk!This looks like pretty inconvenient shortcoming. Are there any plans to fix this issue?
  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2017
    The comment has been removed