How do you handle Servers that are normally Power Down?
Hi,
We have some servers for DR that are generally off. We power them on for monthly patching, or if we need to copy a file or something, but other than that, they are powered off. If the server is on, we want it to be monitored like any other server. However, when it gets powered back down, we don't want to get alerts for it being down because we know it's down. These servers power down via a scheduled task at 3AM if they are on.
We don't want to have them in a permanent SDT because once they get powered on, we don't want to have to go stop it and then start it again when we'd done. Same goes for manually disabling alerting and then having to re-enable it and disable it again.
I see that after a devices is off for a bit it becomes DEAD, which seems to stop all alerting. Can I use that to my advantage? If I know they power down at 3AM, Could I simply put in a daily SDT from 3AM - 3:30AM to grab the Uptime and Ping alerts that happen right when it gets powered off, but then it will change to DEAD and stop alerts? Then the SDT expires and if it gets powered back on, it just works? Only thing it would do is alert because the Uptime is below the threshold, but that's minor.
Just wondering how anyone else handles this if other people have something similar.
Thanks.
