Hello,

I am working on solving this issue of mine. Sometimes devices connected to the DMA get maintenance periods, during which there may be a lot of alarms generated.

This may lead to 2 outcomes – operators may pause the device for a period of time and then forget to unpause it. The second would be operators ignoring or masking said devices.

To solve this I am working on an automation script that would be fairly easy to use. The idea would be to create a script that would pause a device for undefined or X amount of time, generate a single alarm in the console informing that devics are paused (so that operators won’t forget about it). Such an alarm would have a hyperlink in its context menu. This hyperlink would unpause said devices.

However I have got a couple of questions:

-Is it possible to add a custom hyperlink to the surveyor menu?

-Is there a more generic way of generating such alarm (based on information event that a script paused the device) without correlation?

-Am I approaching this issue the wrong way? 🙂

EDIT: Another question I forgot to ask – Is it possible to schedule a script triggered by another script? If I want to take out a device for one hour I would use 4 sleep perdiods in automation 15 mins each. This seems really unnecessary but I can’t seem to find a proper way of implementing this.