Alternatives to Planned Maintenance?

[Marcel H_]

I need to create schedules that will generate tasks for CIs/Assets that have regular recurring maintenance needs but have found the Planned Maintenance module to not be very useful or easy to work with.

All I need to be able to do is take a filtered list of CIs and create a task when the schedule runs, but the configuration of a Maintenance Plan> Maintenance Schedule> Schedule Template is not very intuitive and seems very inflexible, not to mention the results are spotty at best (schedule ran but only created 1 work order for a single CI and then never generated another work order).

Is anyone else doing this differently? I thought about using Scheduled Jobs to generate a task, but that seems more difficult to configure when you need specific criteria and filtering to find the CIs that require scheduled maintenance.

[achin_chawla]

For creating recurring maintenance tasks for CIs/Assets, here’s a more flexible alternative to the Planned Maintenance module:

1. Use Scheduled Jobs: Create a Scheduled Job that runs regularly to generate maintenance tasks.

2. Filter CIs/Assets: Use a Business Rule or Script Include within the job to filter CIs based on your specific criteria (e.g., CI class, status).

3. Task Creation: Write a script that loops through the filtered CIs and generates tasks, setting the necessary fields.

This offers more control than Maintenance Plans and allows for easier filtering.