How to schedule Maintenance Mode in SCOM 2012?

Hi
How do I schedule Maintenance Mode in SCOM 2012? Do we have any tool for 2012 like we had with 2007?
Regards,
Akhilesh
Thanks, Akhilesh

Yep - to add a calendar takes some extra steps:
E.g.
1) Create a database which includes a table to store information such as:
- target for maintenance mode
- scheduled time for maintenance mode
- Comments
- Duration
- Reason
2) The Service Request fires off an Orchestrator runbook that stores this information in the database
3) Another Runbook that runs frequently that checks the database to see if it should kick off maintenance mode.
It isn't any easy solution for maintenance mode. It works better for more simplistic scheduling e.g. we do implement this kind of logic for environment refreshes and backups where we use the SM Portal and Orchestrator to log a date and then have another
runbook that runs at 2am every day to check if it should execute a backup \ refresh.
Cheers
Graham
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Regards, Srini

Hi,
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need to have access and you can provide list of servers in text file.
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SCOM 2012 - Use Powershell to put specific server and contained objects into Maintenance Mode

I am still trying to develop what I thought was going to be an easy script, to put a specific server and all it's contained objects into maintenance mode in SCOM 2012.   Not a group, but just one specific server and all it's stuff.
My script to START maintenance mode has two parameters:
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If ($Instance)
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my code above.   But I think that is what I want to happen.   I just want all monitoring and alerting for the specified server to stop.   So if you think I need to change the above code so that it gets all the "contained
objects" please let me know.
The second part, which I know for a fact isn't fully working, is intended to stop maintenance mode for a server.
My script to STOP maintenance mode has only one parameter:
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Then it does the following to STOP maintenance mode:
Import-Module OperationsManager
$Instance = Get-SCOMClassInstance -Name $FQDN
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and stop maintenance mode manually I can see that the green Healthy checkbox comes back. But when I try to run my above code to do it via script, it stays at "Not Monitored" instead.
Can someone help me out here? Looking for answers to two questions:
1. Does my Start maintenance mode code look ok? Will that put a server and all it's contained objects into maintenance mode?
2. What do I need to hadd to my Stop maintenance mode code, so that it correctly stops maintenance mode on the server and all its objects and everything starts to be monitored again?
Thanks in advance! Please let me know if you need any more information in order to be able to help me!

Hello, thanks for your response. Unfortunately, it does not appear that the link you provided works.
As far as not including "selected objects and all their contained objects" I am wondering if there is a way for me to tell for sure. One thing I found was that if I run this script and put the server into maintenance mode, then I go into
SCOM and click on Edit Maintenance Mode for that server, it shows me the details.   It has some comment, and my selected reason, based on the code I posted above.   It also DOES have "selected objects and all their contained objects"
selected at top. So it seems to me like it is working correctly, and does contain all the objects.   If you think that 'Edit' screen would be inaccurate for some reason, please let me know. Or if you know of a way for me to check and
confirm, please let me know that as well.
As for REMOVING it from maintenance mode, I did eventually find a line of code that I think works. Here's what my code looks like now:
Import-Module OperationsManager
$Instance = Get-SCOMClassInstance -Name $FQDN
If ($Instance)
$MMEntry = Get-SCOMMaintenanceMode -Instance $Instance If ($MMentry)
$Instance.StopMaintenanceMode([DateTime]::Now.ToUniversalTime(),[Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common.TraversalDepth]::Recursive);
When I use the above code to STOP maintenance mode, the green checkmark does reappear for the server, and everything seems to be being monitored again.   Unlike before, where the maintenance mode icon would go away, but it would never change back
to saying 'Monitored' again. So I think that changing that one line to stop maintenance mode seems to have done the trick.
So I guess my last concern now is just putting in maintenance mode initially, as I was talking about above. If you still think the 'Edit Maintenance Mode' screen is not a good indicator of what my code does, please let me know.

Automatic Maintenance Mode SCOM 2012

What I'm trying to do is get an alert based on a shutdown event to trigger a script that then puts the server into maintenance mode. I've seen a few solutions to this for 2007, but this is the only one I've seen for 2012.
https://overcast.azurewebsites.net/2013/11/auto-maintenance-mode-with-scom-2012/
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mm. For troubleshooting, I had it write a couple things to a log file.
When I run it from the command prompt, the log file contains the hostname I'm passing it for the ManagedEntity parameter in line 4, and the Instance that is returned from line 6 and it all works.
When I run it with the command channel in SCOM, it again writes out the ManagedEntity parameter as the hostname, so that part seems to work the same. But the Instance is returned to the log file as an empty line and then of course the server doesn't
go into MM. So it seems like something is different between me passing the FQDN as a parameter from the command line, and the command channel passing the ManagedEntity parameter from SCOM. Even though they both get written to the log file as the
hostname of the server. Any idea what I'm missing?
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$startTime = [DateTime]::Now
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$Instance = Get-SCOMClassInstance -Name $ManagedEntityDisplayName
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Hi
What version of Power shell are you using on your management server? The I suspect the issue might be that when you run it doesn't actually load "import-module
OperationsManager" when scom runs it. So when you execute any scom command and save it into a variable it will always be empty.
To test if this is the issue run this
Param($ManagedEntityDisplayName)
$startTime = [DateTime]::Now
$endTime = $startTime.AddMinutes(15)
"Managed Entity is $managedentitydisplayname" |out-file log.txt
import-module OperationsManager
$SCOMConnection = Get-SCOMManagementGroupConnection
"Connection is $SCOMConnection" | Out-File log.txt -Append
$SCOMAgent = Get-SCOMAgent -name $ManagedEntityDisplayName
"SCOMAgent is $SCOMAgent" | Out-File log.txt -Append
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I suggest the following:
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see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878350(v=vs.85).aspx
If the above doesn't fix the issue re installing the console might be needed
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Hi,
Just looking some advice on setting SCOM Maintenance Mode (using SCOM/SCO 2012R2)...
I want to be able to set a server entirely into MaintMode, ie similar to choosing "Selected object AND ALL their contained objects" from SCOM console.
I had asked similar question back in SCOM 2007/Opalis days, but the solution then (placing server and health server watchers separately into maintenance as per Anders blog http://contoso.se/blog/?p=2164 I'm not sure is appropriate now as I believe MaintMode
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Windows PowerShell
PS C:\> $Instance = Get-SCOMClassInstance -Name "Server01.Contoso.com"
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PS. Not sure if this post is better placed here or in SCOM/Powershell forum so can move if necessary...

Hi Michael,
thanks for your reply confirming the powershell command will work.
I have actually just tried using the native Start Maintenance Mode Activity which actually seems to do as required - if the monitor selected is the relevant <servername> : Microsoft.Windows.Computer: <servername> object then it seems to put the
entire server into maintenance. I tested against a server which happened to also host SQL role, so when I placed in Maint via the runbook I then stopped the SQL service and no alerts generated from SQL MP and I could see the spanner Icon against
the server in relevant SQL node views aswell.
I had though maybe that only windows MP stuff might be supressed - so again when I came across all the very complex solutions to apply Maint mode properly I wasnt sure if it was still relevant in 2012 (even though some of those solutions indicated for use
on SCOM/SCO 2012?)
Anyway if the simple solution work - as it appears to do so, then I'll run with that - unless someone can tell me why not?...
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As long as the base pack works and you wish to retain the customisation then you should be ok, there’s a good article
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Sure, no worries.
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