I've currently been working on an idea to create a new field called
isMaintenance from which I can then create a "Maintenance" smartset.

The next idea is to use rulesets to test whether a node is a member of
the Maintenance smartset - if it is then don't react; otherwise panic as
normal.

I am thinking of providing a registration file to let you pick nodes off
the map to say they are going into/out of  Maintenance mode.  The ARF
will then run a wee script that does an nvdbimport to set/unset the
isMaintenance field, which automatically makes it part of the
Maintenance SmartSet.

You can obviously expand on this idea for all sorts of other things.....

I haven't quite finished this yet so if anyone has input, I'd much
appreciate it.

Cheers, Jane

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