GUI and CLI Process For Enable The Schedule Maintenance Function

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Provides an overview of how to enable the Schedule Maintenance function in Smarts SAM Suite along with what is required to enable the Schedule Maintenance function in Smarts SAM Suite. 

You might notice the following

• Schedule Maintenance is grayed out in Smarts SAM
• Schedule Maintenance is disabled in Smarts SAM
  
  

Environment

Smarts 10.1.X / 2.X

Resolution

To enable Schedule Maintenance in Smarts SAM in versions 8.x and newer:

• In Smarts SAM suite, your environment must have the Maintenance and Business Impact Manager (MBIM) service configured in order to use the Schedule Maintenance functionality (see Note statement). To enable the Schedule Maintenance function in Smarts SAM you must do the following:
  • From the Smarts SAM Global Administration Console, define and enable the MBIM domain manager. 
  • Reconfigure the Smarts SAM domain manager.
  • Connect the Domain Administration Console to MBIM.
  • Define the source of topology and notifications for MBIM using the Topology "Add Source" menu.  When prompted, supply the name of the SAM domain manager that will provide topology to MBIM.
  • From the Smarts SAM Topology Browser Console, invoke the Enable Maintenance menu from the top level SAM domain manager object.

Additional Information

This procedure is documented in the Smarts SAM Suite Configuration Guide. See this document for details on how to configure the Maintenance and Business Impact Manager (MBIM).