I understood that, I was proposing something that might
meet your request "to try to make the tool as general as
possible."
Mike
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Possible Future Feature Request
IF the schedule makes it that SA isn't doing many check for
that specific entry , then having a MAINTENANCE until for just 1 hour should not
be a problem.
Look at my "other example"
Dirk.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael D. Shook
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 4:20 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Possible Future Feature Request
My limited understanding of the issue as
proposed:
In order to set the 'maintenance until' to the next
scheduled time period then, the user has to know what the schedule is, then
set the 'maintenance until' to run into that time period so that it goes
from 'maintenance until' directly to 'maintenance due to schedule'.
The problem here is that with a large number of checks, I'm not going to
remember all the different schedules. I would have to open up the check, see
what it's schedule was, calculate a good time, then cancel out of that, then set
the 'maintenance until' setting.
What about this, if SA internally kept it as 'maintenance
until' BUT offered an option to automatically calculate that time based on the
checks schedule if it has one? This could be inserted into the right click menu
as two options, one for the user to enter a time period, and a second to set the
'maintenance until' to when the check is set to go on 'maintenance by schedule'
as an internal calculation?
Would this solve both user requests and be
workable?
Michael Shook
Technical
Analyst
Saddle Creek Corporation
723 Joe Tamplin Industrial Blvd
Macon GA
31217
478 742 8740 ext. 105 (work)
478 256 9318 (mobile)
478 742 7917 (fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.saddlecrk.com
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 9:48 AM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Possible Future Feature Request
I think you might be misunderstanding how this would
work.
Let me try to explain.
Example:
entry_1 has a schedule that says NOT to check on
Friday from 6am until 8pm
On Friday at 4am you maunal set it to
maintenance (NOT changing the schedule!) for 4 hours
This means that the next cycle let's assume at
4:10am the entry is not checked since it's in maintenance.
...
At 8am (to be correct first cycle after
8am) we remove the maintenance flag (4 hours after the time it was set to
maintenance), and we see that due to the schedule is set NOT to be checked ->
entry is not checked.
First we look at the maintenance/active flag. And IF
that flag gives an "active" as result then we check the schedule.
So from what I can understand from what you want to do this
should not be a problem.
Other example:
entry_1 has a schedule that says to check on
Wednesday from 8am until 9am
On Wednesday at 8:15am you put the entry into
maintenance for 1 hour
On Wednesday at 9:15am we remove the maintenance
flag and check the schedule and see that we should not check
it.
...
Do you understand?
Dirk.
