Placing Monitored Objects in Maintenance Mode

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007, Windows Server 2012

When a monitored object, such as a computer or distributed application, goes offline for maintenance, Operations Manager 2007 detects that no agent heartbeat is being received and, as a result, the object might generate numerous alerts and notifications. To prevent alerts and notifications, place the monitored object into maintenance mode. In maintenance mode, alerts, notifications, rules, monitors, automatic responses, state changes, and new alerts are suppressed at the agent.

For general instructions about placing a monitored object in maintenance mode, see How to Put a Monitored Object into Maintenance Mode in Operations Manager 2007 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108358).

Exception

If users are getting the alerts from the following replication monitoring rules for domain controllers in maintenance mode, it is a known issue. The workaround is to resolve these alerts when domain controllers are out of maintenance mode.

  • “AD Replication is occurring slowly”

  • “DC has failed to synchronize naming context with its replication partner”

  • “One or more domain controllers may not be replicating”