"Disable host" field in polling hosts - what for?

[ymilner]

Hello,

What is the meaning for this field? I assumed if I select this, it will inactivate all data sources asociated with this host, but this did not happen? What is it for?

Thanks,

Yuly

[yid]

It should prevent the cmd.php from picking it up when it grabs datasources to poll for. I've tried it, and it seemed to work for me.

Aaron

[ymilner]

Yes, you are right

I was mistaken by the fact that the data sources stayed active, but when I grabbed the poller output, I noticed it actually does not use the data sources from the disabled host.

The only thing to wish here is an option to perform disable/enable operation (and possibly others, like copy) on multiple hosts at once; the same way you can do today with data sources and graphs.

Yuly