Masking and Unmasking alarms automatically by scheduler or automation script

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Hi

Is there any possibility / way to mask and unmask alarms automatically by scheduler or any other automation script available ?

Would anybody please suggest any idea to achieve through Dataminer.

I have a functionality to develop in our project that in a specific time some of the systems going to power off in a site and again at some other time same systems going to power on. In this situation we don't want to monitor those alarms in Dataminer. By the way there is a dataminer documentation available to mask and unmask alarms manually, but in the documentation they haven't mentioned any automatic way.

Thanks,

Mohan RV

Ben Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 29th May 2025

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Hi Mohan - based on the use case you describe, rather than masking those alarms, would it not be better to not generate those alarms in the first place?  The schedule feature on alarm templates would allow you to do that.  Scheduling an alarm template | DataMiner Docs.

Mohan Ramasamy Veerappan Edited comment 3rd June 2025
Mohan Ramasamy Veerappan commented

Thanks Ben for your prompt reply and I appreciate.
Yeah I have checked Scheduling alarm template feature, if we use this template then we cannot receive all the alarms of the element I guess. But my use case is we need to receive active alarms except filtered by some services using alarm description. And also we need to mask alarms for some services dynamically at any time frame by scheduling. If that works then we can do unmask of those alarms in the same manner.

Would you please suggest any of the source or any idea ?