{"id":3972,"date":"2017-12-04T05:10:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2017-12-04T05:10:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:10:48","slug":"turn-off-during-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/service-protector\/turn-off-during-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Q & A: How Do I Turn Off Service Protector During Scheduled Maintenance?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n  Wanted to know if there\u2019s a way for Service Protector<\/a> to not monitor a service during a patching period<\/b> of time? Or any scheduled period of time without sending a million alerts?<\/p>\n

— Mark @ Red Roof Inns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nHi Mark. Apologies for the barrage of unnecessary emails! Unfortunately Service Protector doesn’t know that it is OK for your service to be down while you are patching. It is diligently doing its job.\n<\/p>\n

\nTo avoid the false alarms, we recommend shutting down Service Protector at the start of your maintenance window and reactivating it once patching has concluded. These operations can be performed from the Service Protector GUI or with the standard Windows NET command<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nYou see, Service Protector creates a Windows Service for each service it monitors. If your service is named “MyService”, then Service Protector creates a service called “ServiceProtector: MyService” to watch your target service. Here is what it looks like for the “Print Spooler” service on our Windows Server 2016 machine:<\/p>\n

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\n\"Service<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

\nNote that the service name may not be the same as the friendly “display name” you see in Service Protector (and Services.msc<\/a>). For example, the service name of the “Print Spooler” service is actually “Spooler”:<\/p>\n

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\n\"Print<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

This post<\/a> shows how to find the service name.\n<\/p>\n

How to Stop Protection at the Start of Maintenance<\/b><\/h2>\n