Schedule an outage for a node


A scheduled outage is planned to happen and recurs at regular intervals for maintenance. You can define a scheduled node outage using two scheduled task policies:

Both policies use the ovownodeutil command line tool.

To schedule an outage for a managed node, external node, or node group

  1. Create a scheduled task policy.
  2. In the Task tab, choose Command as task type.
  3. Select the %OvInstallDir%\bin\ovownodeutil.cmd command line tool with the following options:
  4. In the Schedule tab, specify the start date and time for the outage.
  5. Save the policy.
  6. Create a second scheduled task policy.
  7. In the Task tab, choose Command as task type.
  8. Select the %OvInstallDir%\bin\ovownodeutil.cmd command line tool with the following options:
  9. In the Schedule tab, specify the end date and time for the outage.
  10. Save the policy.
  11. Deploy both policies to the management server node.

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