<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I personally do not think using disable is a good idea for unplanned problems. For one, if you use the reporting features, you will be mixing planned and unplanned downtime together. Disable is really for times when you know exactly what is going on with the system, and alerting is not needed/someone is watching the system manually. That's my take on it anyway, and what I tell the people that work with me.<br><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">____ *Note: UMDNJ is now Rutgers-Biomedical and Health Sciences*<br>|| \\UTGERS |---------------------*O*---------------------<br>||_// Biomedical | Ryan Novosielski - Senior Technologist<br>|| \\ and Health | <a href="mailto:novosirj@rutgers.edu" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">novosirj@rutgers.edu</a>- 973/972.0922 (2x0922)<br>|| \\ Sciences | OIRT/High Perf & Res Comp - MSB C630, Newark<br> `'</span></div><div><br>On Nov 2, 2015, at 18:59, John Thurston <<a href="mailto:john.thurston@alaska.gov">john.thurston@alaska.gov</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>We often use "disable until ok", but it was brought to my attention that </span><br><span>it has burned us from time to time. For example:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Host foo is yellow on disk. But that's ok. We're going to allocate some </span><br><span>new storage for it in the next service window. The test is marked </span><br><span>"disable until ok". But before the service window arrives, something </span><br><span>chews up a whole bunch of disk and the now-red test continues to be blue </span><br><span>because the test is not yet ok.</span><br><span></span><br><span>We sometimes use "acknowledge" for this function, but the non-green </span><br><span>screen can get kind of cluttered this way.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Does anyone have a good way to fake "disable while status remains </span><br><span>unchanged"?</span><br><span>-- </span><br><span> Do things because you should, not just because you can.</span><br><span></span><br><span>John Thurston 907-465-8591</span><br><span><a href="mailto:John.Thurston@alaska.gov">John.Thurston@alaska.gov</a></span><br><span>Enterprise Technology Services</span><br><span>Department of Administration</span><br><span>State of Alaska</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Xymon mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>