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Configuring rules to run during business hours only

I have heard the question about creating rules that execute only during a certain set of hours many times in the last while. While its not straight forward, it is still possible. Attached to the this blog post is a MHTML file which I wrote that describes the steps of how this can be done and also gives you some clues as to how this can be done for a monitor. The MHTML file includes step by step instructions on how this can be done and also provides screen shots. The first time you do it, it will probably take 10-15 minutes. However the next time you do it, I think it will be pretty quick.

If you have questions about the steps written in the MHTML file, please leave me a comment. If you find this useful, please also leave me a comment and I can put together a sample for a monitor.

Published Friday, September 19, 2008 7:00 AM by Boris Yanushpolsky
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Attachment(s): Scheduled Rules.mht

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# Configuring rules to run when you want them to...

Friday, September 19, 2008 6:29 AM by David Allen

Boris Yanushpolsky has just published a great article on how to configure rules to only run during times

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Friday, September 19, 2008 6:32 AM by Jaime Correia

Hi Boris, can you put and example for this for a monitor? Let us say a service? :)

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Friday, September 19, 2008 6:32 AM by David Allen

Great article Boris, very clear and extremely useful.  Thanks!

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Friday, September 19, 2008 6:35 AM by Jaime Correia

hi Boris, can you put an example for a monitor?

A service monitor perhaps?

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Friday, September 19, 2008 8:06 AM by Marco Shaw

Yes, please show us how to use this for a monitor.

Marco

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Sunday, September 21, 2008 2:40 AM by pixel

great boris,

exactly what i needed.

will try it out! thanks

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Sunday, September 21, 2008 3:00 AM by Daniele Muscetta

the issue I feel about this is, mainly: when tuning MOM2005, it was a common thing to just disable something AT CERTAIN TIMES, while leaving it running the rest of the day....

that is... for EXISTING rules/monitors. I am not willing to DUPLICATE existing monitors and rules coming in sealed MPs just to do this... it should just be overridable.

Also - unrelated to the topic itself - why didn't you just write a post (which would be accessible on browsers other than IE and COULD be read into aggregators, and would be better INDEXED by search engines) with the steps... instead than ATTACHING a .MHT file?

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Sunday, September 21, 2008 2:20 PM by Boris Yanushpolsky

Hi Daniele,

I do know that this is not a perfect solution, but this is something people can do in the meanwhile. We are definitely looking at how to make this possible for rules/monitors in sealed MPs.

As for the blog post itself, the reason I put it into a MHTML page is because adding pictures with the blog writing tool that comes with blogs.msdn.com is very time consuming. I will try to recreate the blog post with all the content in the post rather than the attachment.

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Monday, September 22, 2008 9:14 AM by Pixel

First of all thanks for writing this mht to explain to us how it can be done. I dont understand why this didnt come out of the box as its quite logical this would have come to this.

anyways, this solution doesnt work for me aswell as i wont to accomplish that on sealed mps and i prefer not to duplicate the monitor into an unsealed mp etc.

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Friday, September 26, 2008 8:48 AM by Laurent DE BERTI

Is it possible to use a solution like this to do an override ? I explain. A rule is defined to run everyday and you want to disable the rule for a couple of hours every without using the maintenance mode ? The maintenance mode just permit to disable temporary all rules and monitors of an object.

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Friday, September 26, 2008 11:48 AM by Boris Yanushpolsky

I am not sure I fully understood the question. Are you looking to make the hours parameter overrideable for custom rules that you create?

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:56 AM by Robert Gillespie

This is great Boris. Have you done the same for a monitor yet. We just got a request this week to disable monitoring of a service after hours.

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:47 AM by paul keely

hey Boris, I cant see anywhere in rules to select a custom rule? can you specify where to find it, when i go to the rules folder i can only select new rule and then i get have to choose from

Alert generating rules

Collection rules

Timed Commands?

Thanks in advance

Paul

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:57 PM by Boris Yanushpolsky

In the authoring console you need to do the following:

1 - Go to the health model tab

2 - Click on the Rules node in the tree view on the left side of the screen

3 - Then on the right side of the screen right click and select New->Custom Rule.

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:12 PM by marco.shaw

A different method for doing this with monitors:

http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/running-a-monitor-during-business-hours/

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:59 PM by Andrew Kunz

Was working good then we had DST this weekend, it does not seem to be honouring the schedule anymore.  Has anyone else seen this behaviour ?

# re: Configuring rules to run during business hours only

Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:18 PM by amalk

did you take into consideration Rule being run on servers in different Time zone?

...

<Start>09:00</Start>

<End>17:00</End>

...

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