On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:07:38PM -0400,
 Ed Ravin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
 a message of 23 lines which said:

> In most cases, our engineers log into Mon and use the "host disable"
> or "service disable" to stop montoring the stuff that's about to go
> down, and re-enable them when the maintenance is over.
> 
> Sometimes, we just ACK whatever's broken when Mon starts alarming.

The good thing about "doing nothing when there is a planned
maintenance" is that it allows you to test that monitoring indeed
works.

I had several times the bad experience of an undetected failure
because the monitoring had an hidden problem.

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