Reclassifying an event's significance

[Justin Shore]

Those are viable options.  I already have a null contact for testing purposes.  I'll give these options some thought.

Thanks
 Justin

> Besides using the 'check_dummy' plugin, how about setting up a dummy
> "Not Notified" group?
> Or set escalations to a huge value.
> (my 2 cents)
> 
> 
> Justin Shore wrote:
> 
> >I have 2.0b4 monitoring a number of hosts that go down frequently, almost
> regularly.  Even though we monitor them we do not care what their state is
> (unreachable, up, down, flaming, etc).  These boxes are rebooted or are
> otherwise inaccessible at various time during the day due to numerous
> reasons.  Is it possible to reclassify an unreachable or down state as
> nothing more than a simple warning at most or ideally not show up at all
> on the tactical overview?  I do not want to get paged, nor do I want the
> web interface to send out any time of audible alert.  Like I said before
> we do not care if these machines go offline.  I wouldn't mind them showing
> up red in the status map.  Other than that I want them to run silent.
> Scheduling downtime as needed for these hosts isn't an option.  I also
> don't want to simply disable notifications for these hosts (what I'm
> currently doing).  Having 2 dozen hosts' notifications listed as disabled
> prompts too many questions as to why they're disabled and causes too many
> people to be concerned.  Is there a way to achieve this desired result
> without not monitoring these hosts at all and removing them from the
> config?
 

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