OM2012 – Putting a Monitor in maintenance mode

Question

Hi there,
I need to write a powershell script to put a Monitor in Maintenance mode. This is easily doable manually on the console whenever an alert comes up by putting the alert in Maintenance Mode.
So far I managed to make my script to put the class of the Monitor into maintenance, as per bellow
i.e. if the monitor is “Total CPU Utilization Percentage”, it would put  Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter in maintenance mode for the computer $ComputerName.
$ComputerName = Read-Host “Enter computer name”
$MonitorName = “Total CPU Utilization Percentage”
$Monitors=Get-SCOMMonitor -ComputerName $strComputerName | where {$_.DisplayName -eq $MonitorName}
$Time = ((Get-Date).AddMinutes(6))
foreach ($Monitor in $Monitors) {
$Instance = Get-SCOMclass -name $Monitor.target.identifier.path | Get-SCOMClassInstance #| where {$_.Path -eq $ComputerName}
Start-SCOMMaintenanceMode -Instance $Instance -EndTime $Time -Comment: “Server maintenance”
I can’t figure our how to simply put “Total CPU Utilization Percentage” (or any other Monitor) in maintenance mode
Thanks for your help !

Answer 1

Yes, use the "Start Maintenance Mode" Activtiy of the Integration Pack for OpsMgr.
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