Configuring Maintenance Window Management

Maintenance Window Management (MWM) is an add-on for managing Netcool®/OMNIbus maintenance windows.

MWM can be used with Netcool/OMNIbus versions 7.x and later. A maintenance time window is a prescheduled period of downtime for a particular asset. Faults and alarms, also known as events, are often generated by assets undergoing maintenance, but these events can be ignored by operations. MWM creates maintenance time windows and ties them to Netcool/OMNIbus events that are based on OMNIbus fields values such as Node or Location. Netcool/Impact watches the Netcool/OMNIbus event stream and puts these events into maintenance according to the maintenance time windows. The Netcool/Impact MWMActivator service in the Services tab under the MWM project must be running to use this feature. For more information about maintenance windows, see About MWM maintenance windows.