placing machine into maintenance with pu

[Anon Anon]

Is it possible to place a machine into maintenance or take it out of maintenance with the pu command.  I'm looking at the switches for the pu command and it has an option called maint_until.  It doesn't appear that I'm executing it appropriately as I'm not able to put a machine into maintenance.  Anybody have an example?

[Anon Anon]

Absolutely possible via PU.

 

I actually posted this awhile back:

 

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You can also do this with the Probe Utility against the robot . Use 'maint_until' and specify how long it should be in maintenance mode for, leave 'until' empty (this is an epoch number), and specify how many seconds in the 'for' parameter.

For example:

pu -u administrator -p xxxxxxxx /"full path to robot"/controller maint_until for 120 until ""

Remember to always include all parameters and leave the "blank" ones in the end.

The call back for the controller is:

maint_until (until, for)

To enter maintenance mode:

Specify either the 'until' value, which is a time value representing the time in seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970) or the 'for' value which is the time in seconds you want the robot to stay in maintenance mode.

To leave maintenance mode:

Use the same call but do not specify neither 'until' nor 'for'.

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Here is the original thread with some other options - good luck!

 

http://forum.nimsoft.com/t5/General/Maintenance-mode/m-p/2774#M1822

 

Dustin

[Anon Anon]

Dustin,

 

When I have used the pu command and passed in arguments on the command line (rather than allowing the command to prompt me), I thought I had to enter the argument values without the names of the arguments. So in your example, I would not have included the words "for" or "until". I do not think I was doing it completely wrong because it actually worked. But is this another way to pass in the arguments? It would sure beat the "try to get them in the right order" approach...

 

Thanks,

Keith

[Anon Anon]

I take it this doesn't work with ldap integration.  I've tried using it with my active directory account and it does not work.  If I use an account that is local to NMS it works.  Is that accurate that an ldap integrated account will not work with the pu executable?