Hey yall,
On the Device Settings… What is the Difference between Disable and Ignore?
thank you,
Kevin
Disable stops all polling. (A little more nuanced than that)
Disable technically hides the interfaces from the webui, disables alerting and discards all polled data (unless per-port polling is enabled, then it isn’t polled at all).
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Got it thank you. I don’t see this anywhere in the Docs. I can add it just need to figure on what section.
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Even better than updating the documentation or the FAQ, how about changing the wording on the interface to match the answer exactly-
Disable - Stop Polling
louis
8 January 2020 17:49
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The wording is still misleading, so that I have done a new PR and updated the doc
librenms:master ← louis-6wind:clarify_disable_ignore
opened 04:45PM - 08 Jan 20 UTC
Clarify disable, ignore and disable all alerts in device edit section
Reason … for this PR: PR https://github.com/librenms/librenms/pull/10809/files introduces wording change. But this change is same than https://github.com/librenms/librenms/pull/8900/files that was rejected with laf's comment: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/pull/8900#issuecomment-405308064
>IMHO I think the clarification of this belongs in the docs really. Disable doesn't just disable polling so it's a bit misleading if we say it does. Same for ignore.
Removed section "alert settings" and moved their settings "device settings" section.
Changed "Disable Polling" to "Disable polling and alerting":
Changed "Ignore Alerts:" to "Ignore alert tag:"
Changed "Disable all alerting for this host" to "Disable alerting".
Current implementation:
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