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Scheduling ITM 6 situations

This tutorial looks at how you can use Odyssey to schedule ITM 6 Situations. You may wish to monitor a particular group of servers at certain times of the day.

Solution Overview

There is no built-in method for scheduling situations in ITM 6. One common solution is to embed scheduling criteria within a situation formula definition. At best this approach is difficult to audit and manage. Furthermore, if you require separate schedules for different groups of servers or have or have ad-hoc schedule requirements then it quickly becomes unworkable.

Odyssey offers a different approach to the problem. Firstly you use Odyssey to define logical groups of servers with similar scheduling requirements. Then you create a schedule for assigning and unassigning these servers to an ITM 6 Managed System List. When a server is assigned to the list the situations will fire, when it is unassigned then the situation will no longer fire.

• Create an Odyssey Resource Group
• Create a Managed System List
• Create an Odyssey ITM 6 Agent Wizard
• Schedule the ITM 6 Monitoring