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All hosts that support Ceph daemons need to support maintenance activity, whether the host
-is physical or virtual(vm or cloud). This means that management workflows should provide
+is physical or virtual. This means that management workflows should provide
a simple and consistent way to support this operational requirement. This document defines
the maintenance strategy that could be implemented in cephadm and mgr/cephadm.
#. When a host is placed into maintenance, the time of the event could be persisted. This
would allow the orchestrator layer to establish a maintenance window for the task and
alert if the maintenance window has been exceeded.
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+#. The maintenance process could support plugins to allow other integration tasks to be
+ initiated as part of the transition to and from maintenance. This plugin capability could
+ support actions like;
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+ * alert suppression to 3rd party monitoring framework(s)
+ * service level reporting, to record outage windows