For a maintenance window, what should you do so that alerts about affected devices do not trigger?

For a maintenance window, what should you do so that alerts about affected devices do not trigger?

• A. Unmanage the device for the duration of maintenance window
• B. Pause all alerts for the entire network
• C. Disable polling on all devices
• D. Remove the devices from monitoring temporarily

Answer: (A)

During a maintenance window you want to prevent alert noise from devices you’re updating while keeping them under your monitoring umbrella. Unmanaging a device tells SolarWinds to stop polling and suppress alerts for that specific device for the chosen period. This keeps the device in the system, preserves its history and settings, and automatically returns to normal monitoring once the maintenance window ends. Other approaches affect more than just the targeted devices: pausing alerts network-wide hides issues for everything, disabling polling stops data collection for all devices, and removing devices from monitoring creates data gaps and extra steps to re-add them. Unmanaging the affected devices focuses the change only where needed, making it the best fit for a maintenance window.

During a maintenance window you want to prevent alert noise from devices you’re updating while keeping them under your monitoring umbrella. Unmanaging a device tells SolarWinds to stop polling and suppress alerts for that specific device for the chosen period. This keeps the device in the system, preserves its history and settings, and automatically returns to normal monitoring once the maintenance window ends.

Other approaches affect more than just the targeted devices: pausing alerts network-wide hides issues for everything, disabling polling stops data collection for all devices, and removing devices from monitoring creates data gaps and extra steps to re-add them. Unmanaging the affected devices focuses the change only where needed, making it the best fit for a maintenance window.