Modifying an Existing Blackout Script

This task describes how to modify an existing blackout script.

Before you begin

You can only use this procedure to modify blackout scripts that you created using the Scheduling Blackouts command. If you created a blackout script outside of BMC PATROL, you cannot modify it using this procedure.

To Modify an Existing Blackout Script

1. Access the SCHEDULER application menu as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes.
2. Select Schedule Blackouts from the SCHEDULER application menu. The PATROL Blackout Scheduler dialog box is displayed.
3. Select a blackout script from the Blackout Script Files group box.
4. Select Modify Selected Script from the Actions group box and click OK. The Blackout Instance Selection dialog box is displayed.

5. Use the following table to perform the actions necessary to select application instances for a blackout period.

   Note

   If you want to remove an application class or instance from the script, highlight it in the Selected Instances group box and click Select.

6. Click Done. The Add New Blackout Script dialog box is displayed.

7. Use the spinner buttons or type a value in the following fields:
8. Perform one of the following actions to set monitoring blackout periods:
   1. If you want to set the same blackout period for all instances in the blackout script, click the Apply period to all remaining instances button.
   2. If you want to set different blackout periods for each application instances, do not select the Apply period to all remaining instances button. If this button is not selected, the Blackout Period dialog box will display for each instance in the script, allowing you to set different blackout time periods for each instance.
9. Click Apply. The Add New Blackout Script Name Summary dialog box is displayed.
10. Click Continue. A confirmation dialog box displays, asking if you want to schedule the script for execution now.
11. Perform one of the following actions:
    1. Click Yes if you want to schedule the blackout script for execution now.
    2. Click No if you do not want to schedule the blackout script for execution now. If you click No, you must perform the steps in Scheduling a Blackout Script for Execution before the blackout script will execute.
        If you clicked Yes, the Schedule PATROL PslExecute() Action dialog box is displayed. Proceed to step 15.

12. In the Execute Script at: group box, use the spinner buttons or type a value in the following fields to schedule the blackout script:

13. If you want to set the blackout script to occur at regularly scheduled intervals, use the spinner buttons or type values in the following fields of the Repeat Execution: group box:

14.  Select the Execute Once Immediately option if you want the script to execute now.

    Note

    If you do not select this option and you are scheduling a script that was supposed to run in the past, it will not run again until the repeated execution runtime. For example, if you have a blackout script that is supposed to run every Sunday evening, but you fill out this dialog box on a Monday morning, BMC PATROL will not run the script until the next scheduled execution. You must toggle the Execute Once Immediately button on to run the script now.

15. Click Accept. The dialog box closes, and BMC PATROL schedules the blackout script for execution.