#if True the maintenance-mode will be activated
MAINTENANCE_MODE = False

#if True the staff will not see the maintenance-mode page
MAINTENANCE_MODE_IGNORE_STAFF = False

#if True the superuser will not see the maintenance-mode page
MAINTENANCE_MODE_IGNORE_SUPERUSER = False

#list of ip-addresses that will not be affected by the maintenance-mode
#ip-addresses will be used to compile regular expressions objects
MAINTENANCE_MODE_IGNORE_IP_ADDRESSES = ()

#list of urls that will not be affected by the maintenance-mode
#urls will be used to compile regular expressions objects
MAINTENANCE_MODE_IGNORE_URLS = ()

#the absolute url where users will be redirected to during maintenance-mode
MAINTENANCE_MODE_REDIRECT_URL = None

#the template that will be shown by the maintenance-mode page
MAINTENANCE_MODE_TEMPLATE = '503.html'

#the path of the function that will return the template context -> 'myapp.mymodule.myfunction'
MAINTENANCE_MODE_TEMPLATE_CONTEXT = None

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    url(r'^maintenance-mode/', include('maintenance_mode.urls')),
    ...
)

from maintenance_mode.core import get_maintenance_mode, set_maintenance_mode

set_maintenance_mode(True)

if get_maintenance_mode():
    set_maintenance_mode(False)

from django.core.management import call_command
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand


class Command(BaseCommand):

    def handle(self, *args, **options):

        call_command('maintenance_mode', 'on')

        #call your command(s)

        call_command('maintenance_mode', 'off')