Put nodes into unplanned outage mode

Use the Unplanned Node Outage dialog box to specify how you want to handle incoming messages and heartbeat polling in the event that a node experiences a failure. As the name suggests, an unplanned outage is unexpected and might occur due to power failure, hardware failure, network problems, and similar situations.

To put a node into unplanned outage mode

1. In the console tree, right-click the managed node, external node, or node group that you want to put into outage mode. This opens the context menu.
2. Select All Tasks Set unplanned outage On. The Unplanned Node Outage dialog box opens.
3. Select one of the following options:
   • Select Delete to remove any incoming messages during the outage.
   • Select Acknowledge to place the messages in the acknowledged messages browser for later consideration.
4. Click the check box to disable heartbeat polling during the outage.
   NOTE:
   This setting is not available for external nodes.
5. Click OK to confirm your choices and close this dialog box.

Related Topics:

• Schedule an outage for a managed node
• View node outage properties
• View external node outage properties