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A maintenance activity defines the set of maintenance actions required for a specific goal. An example of such an activity is "Perform Secure Backup on device X".
Additionally, the maintenance activity contains other specific definitions for the action. This may include for instance which certificate should be used for the Secure Backup , or or which deployment policy should be used for a configuration sync operation.
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A maintenance window defines a period of time during which maintenance plans are allowed to start run.
The definition of a maintenance window consists of two parameters in 24h format (e.g. 22:00)
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A maintenance window may be defined separately for each Maintenance Plan. Alternatively, the installation may use a default system value (see maintenance configurable parameters for more information)
Maintenance Plans will not execute initiate the execution of any new tasks outside the maintenance window.
If, when the Maintenance Window has ended, some of the plan's tasks are still waiting to execute, they will be marked as cancelled and the plan execution will end. Executing tasks will not be interrupted.
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Some examples for device selection are listed below:
| Pattern | Details | Selection |
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| Prod* | Asterisk at the end of the pattern | All devices starting with "Prod" e.g.
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| *1 | Asterisk at the beginning of the pattern | All devices ending with "1" e.g.
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| Device_QA_*1 | Asterisk in the middle of the pattern | All devices starting with "Device_QA_" and ending with "1" e.g.
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| Device*QA* | Multiple asterisks in pattern | All devices starting with "Device", having "QA" somewhere in the name e.g
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| Device-QA1, Device-QA2, Device-*3 | List of values, with or without |
| asterisk in them | All devices exactly matching values in the list. If an asterisk is used - the rules for asterisks apply e.g.
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| * | Asterisk only. | All device names configured in DPOD will be matched. |