Adding a downtime duration preset: fixed time "next Wednesday at 18:00"

[madduck (m)]

Hello,

we have a weekly maintenance window for our hosts on Wednesday at 18:00. Things like non-critical APT upgrades take place then, but they may well be and should be reported earlier (at time of incident) such that a decision can be made in short time about whether to act right away, or whether to postpone to the next maintenance window.

We have found that scheduling a downtime on e.g. an APT updates notification until the next Wednesday 18:00 works really well.

Now I am missing the possibility to add a downtime duration preset, because those can only be either a fixed duration, or the start of the next day/week/month etc., but not “next Wednesday at 18:00”.

I gather this isn’t currently possible. Therefore my question is actually:

1. How do we feed such feature wishes to the devs? Github has neither discussions nor issues;
2. Do you have a better way of handling what I described above?

Thanks,
m

[Yggy]

Recurring scheduled downtime is a paid version feature.

In the past I made a workaround for my 2.1.0p5.cre using rest-api, bash and cron.
In this workaround you can use next Wednesday 18:00.

See my posts at:

RAW: Recurring scheduled downtimes workaround using rest api, bash & cron

Following workaround for raw users might be a no no to share, since recurring scheduled downtimes is an enterprise feature. If indeed not appreciated, just remove the topic. Warning: I am a newbie regarding rest api, bash scripting & cron so following might be done better or may impose risks. But made this today, tested it and seems to be working. (-: Using Checkmk Raw Edition 2.1.0p5 on Ubuntu 20.04. Based on Help | Developer resources | REST API Documentation | Downtimes | Create a host rel…

And for feature suggestions, check out https://ideas.checkmk.com/

[madduck (m)]

Thank you for your response. I am not looking for recurring downtime. I just want a preset for when I schedule a downtime manually to be “until next Wednesday 18:00”.

[Yggy]

Currently there’s no GUI preset for that, at least not in raw that I know. So you can submit your feature suggestion in mentioned link, and wait till enough others want it too and implement it.

In my workaround cron is doing the ‘recurring’ part. So if you leave that out and just use such a bash script for downtime scheduling, you got something while you wait. (-;

[madduck (m)]

Yeah, I get it; but there is no recurrence. I don’t need Cron. I just want to manually schedule non-critical fixes and stuff to the maintenance window.