Network Management

Hi,

I know with version 7.5.7 we can do a planned downtime for a particular device but what about a global setting.

We need to upgrade a bunch of controllers tonight which are being monitored by Airwave and we do not want the Uptime report to reflect this.

Is this possible? Can we have a global setting to not monitor the controllers and APs with Airwave?

Any other way of accomplishing this?

Currently there's not a place to do this from the Web GUI.  You'll have to make the change manually from the CLI.

# dbc 'update ap set planned_maintenanced_mode=1 where id in (a,b,c);'

where a,b,c = the id numbers of the devices you want to put into maintenance mode

To find all your controller ids:

# dbc 'select id from ap where controls_aps=1;'

To do both parts in a single command:

# dbc 'update ap set planned_maintenance_mode=1 where id in (select id from ap where controls_aps=1);'

Then to revert, you can do the same command but toggle planned_maintenance_mode=0.

Or if no devices should be in planned maintenance mode:

# dbc 'update ap set planned_maintenance_mode=0;'

You can also do it for a whole group of devices.  From within a group, go to the Basic page and add a Maintenance Window.

Great guys thanks, I will try that.

I haven't tried the maintenance window setting yet, but if that works, then you can do it all from the GUI.

Steps to do this:

1.  Go to APs/Devices

2.  List all devices on a single page

3.  Sort by type

4.  Click on the 'modify devices' wrench above the device list table - this should introduce check boxes next to all devices

5.  Check all the controllers you're going to upgrade

6.  Near bottom of the page is 'Add Maintenance Window'

Let us know if this works for you.

will be trying that now, will report later tonight if that worked...

seems that doing it the way rgin suggested (was the only way I tried) worked for me.

Thanks again.

Which method did you use?  The CLI or the GUI with modify devices wrench?

GUI with wrench modification.

I initially used the wrench + Planned downtime mode but does not seem to work

Adding a Maintenance window does though.

Everyone,

Adding a maintenance window in Airwave is different than setting Planned Downtime Mode.

I had to recover my controller with a previous backup but it also converted a bunch of RAPs into CAPs due to Airwave pushing the configuration it had onto the controller.