Maintenance Mode in ECC?

This is not ideal, but you could modify the Schedules in one of two ways:

1) Edit all of the default schedules to skip the time you do not want to poll.
2) Create a new schedule excluding the maintenance windows and modify the policies you want to avoid getting false alerts from to use this schedule.

I'd go with option 2) personally just because I'm guessing there are only a few alerts that you are really concerned about supressing.

Hope this helps.

So there is no real maintenance window ? A simple click to suspend any DCP ?

Well, we do have a maintenance window, but it is not the same everytime. Depends on a number of factors. The only thing that is consistent, is that it will always be a Saturday. Most commonly, the third or fourth Saturday of the month. I'm more OK with putting up with the alerts for our "monthly maintenance" periods, as that is just one day per month I have to deal with them. I would really like to be able to suppress alerts for one or two servers whenever they are doing maintenance on them. Maybe an ad-hoc reboot from a software/patch install. But, by the suggestions so far, it is looking more like I need to submit a feature request. If you're familiar with MOM or NetIQ, that's the kind of feature I was hoping someone could direct me to!

I could do that for the "one offs". If I know about them in advance. I'm going to submit a feature request today.

Thanks for all of the suggestions.

By the way, I did submit a feature request for this. It would make my maintenance weekends so much nicer not having the contend with thousands of alerts/emails.

Speaking of enhancement requests:
we had an issue once that somebody by accident initialized the vcmdb instead of backing it up. We wrote an enhancement request for that as well, since we think that init commands should not be choosable from within ECC......

And now let's hope our questions are honored.