The Blackout Best Effort functionality is targeted towards the creation of blackouts on targets of any aggregate type, such as Group, Hosts, Application Servers, Web Applications, Redundancy Groups, or Systems.

All targets the blackout creator has Blackout Target (or higher) privilege on will be displayed in the first step of Create/Edit Blackout Wizard. Once the blackout creator selects an aggregate type of target to be included in the Blackout Definition, this Blackout is "Full Blackout" by default.

The creator has the option of choosing the Blackout to run on “All Current" or “Selected" Targets, by selecting the appropriate values from the List box. Only when the "Full Blackout" option is chosen, will Blackout Best Effort affect targets for which the creator does not have Blackout Target (or higher) privileges.

Example Use Case

Consider 3 targets T1,T2 and T3 (all databases). A Group G1 contains all these 3 targets.

User U1 has OPERATOR privilege on T1,T2 and G1. User U1 has VIEW privilege on T3.

User U1 creates a scheduled full blackout on target G1. Scheduled implies that the blackout will start at a later point in time.

At the time of blackout creation, the tip text Needs Blackout Target privilege, see Tip below the table would be shown beside target T3.

When this blackout starts, if by that time User U1 has been granted OPERATOR privileges on target T3, then target T3 would also be under blackout. Otherwise only targets T1, T2 and G1 will be under blackout.