Scheduling a database blackout event

You can schedule database blackout events to disallow monitoring and job execution on databases for the period of time that you specify.

Procedure

  1. Click Blackout Events to open the Database Blackout Event page.
  2. Click Schedule a Blackout Event.
  3. In the configuration panel of the new database blackout event, specify a name and description for the blackout event, specify a schedule for the database blackout event, and specify the databases to which the database blackout event applies. You must be an administrator of the web console or have Is Database Owner privileges for a database to schedule a blackout event for a database.
  4. Click Save All.

Results

The new database blackout event will activate based on the schedule that you specify.

When a database blackout event is active, health monitoring, performance monitoring, job and custom alert script execution, and any other connections to the affected databases from the web console will be blocked, and all active connections to the affected databases from the web console will be dropped.

You can stop an active database blackout event with the Blackout menu on the Databases page.


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