[nv-l] not polling interface during certain hours

Greetings,

overview: We have servers on 2 specific subnets with dual interface cards on them. One of these cards is used for nightly backups. These interfaces during specific hours are known to flood the network with traffic, making the polling,pinging ability of NV make false reports of them being down. We also have switch analyzer running as well.

We would like to not poll/ping the specific interface of these servers during these hours. But would still want the other interface polled/ping'd. Is there a way to not poll the interface while still polling the other interface. I saw some comments on the list server about putting the devices into a smartset and running a script against it with xnmsnmpconf. But that would iliminate polling of the entire device. We only want to NOT poll the specified interface. Other then creating a ruleset which would still have to process these interfaces' events, is there a way to stop polling?

Thought: Is there a way to execute the unmanage function via CLI that i could script and at the beginning of backup time simply set those interfaces to unmanaged. Then another script to manage them again when the time has expired?

Thank you

Chris Petrina

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