You can create, edit, or delete an action suppression in the Action Suppression tab. To access the action suppression configuration, click Alert & Respond > Actions > Action Suppression.

Create an Action Suppression

Configure the panels in the same order as displayed in the interface, because the configuration of the object scope determines the available affected entities present in the object scope panel.

  1. In the Action Suppression panel, click the Create + icon. The Create Action Suppression wizard appears.

  2. In the Overview panel, enter a name for the action suppression. You can use alphanumeric characters to specify a name. 

    Ensure that you specify a unique name.

  3. To prevent the agents defined in the object scope from reporting metric data during the action suppression active time frame, select Disable Agent Reporting. 
  4. From the Time Zone dropdown, select a time zone based on your location.
  5. To suppress actions only once, configure these One Time settings:
    • Planned Maintenance: Select this option if you want to suppress actions for an upcoming planned maintenance or downtime period of your system. Specify the following: 
      1. Start Time: The time to start action suppression. You can choose:
        • Now—to suppress actions immediately.
        • After—to suppress actions after the defined number of minutes.
        • Date—to suppress actions on a date, at a defined time.
      2. End Time: The time to stop action suppression. You can choose:
        • After—to stop suppressing the actions after the defined number of minutes.
        • Date—to stop suppressing actions on a date, at a defined time.
    • Unplanned Past Outage: Select this option if you want to record an unplanned maintenance or downtime period of your system that happened in the past. This option is useful when you want to exclude the metrics reported by the agents during the unplanned maintenance or downtime period from reporting and analytics. Specify the following:
      1. Start Time: The past date and time when the unplanned maintenance or downtime had started.
      2. End Time: The past date and time when the unplanned maintenance or downtime had ended.
  6. To suppress actions on a recurring basis, configure these Recurring settings:
    • Daily—to suppress actions every day from the defined Start Time to the End Time.
    • Weekly—to suppress actions on a specific day of a week from the defined Start Time to the End Time.
    • Monthly—to suppress actions on a specific date or a day of the month.  
      • Specific date—to suppress actions starting on a specified Start Date and Start Time through the End Date and End Time.
      • Specific day—to suppress actions starting on a specified day and Start Time through the End Time.
  7. In the Object Scope panel, select what entities that the action suppression affects.
    Depending on the type of object, you can configure the corresponding entities that are affected. See Entities Affected for information about the type of entities that can be affected by various objects.
  8. To suppress actions only for the violations caused by specified health rules:
    1. In the Health Rule Scope panel, select Suppress Action execution for these specified Health Rules.
    2. Click Add. The Health Rule Selection dialog appears.
    3. Select the health rules and click Select Health Rule(s).
  9. Click Create.

Edit an Action Suppression

To modify an action suppression configuration, click the Edit icon.

Delete an Action Suppression

To delete a configured action suppression, click the Delete icon. A dialog asks you to confirm the deletion.