We published  a nice Powershell sample for putting a specific object (regardless of object class) awhile back (check it out HERE). Here’s a good example of how to put an website monitor into maintenance targeting the object display name.

• Replace “Web Application Name” with the Display Name with that on your monitor.

• Replace the 60 with the number of minutes you’d like to throw the object into maintenance.

 $Now = get-date

$WebAppObject = get-monitoringobject | where {$_.DisplayName –eq “Web Application Name”}new-maintenancewindow -starttime $Now -endtime $Now.addminutes(60)
–comment “Nightly shutdown” –monitoringobject $WebAppObject

Wrap that up with the connection string to connect to your management group and save as a .ps1 file and you can schedule it in a task to run nightly!

Thanks to Graham for posting the additional example on the original post.

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