On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Becker Christian <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net> wrote:
a) In CA Unicenter you can acknowledge an red alert. After having acknowledged an red alert, this red alert changes to an orange alert, indicating that there is still a problem. The main advantage is, that any “view” on a “higher level” isn’t under red condition any longer – it becomes yellow. This means, that a new red alert coming from the same server could be recognized in a better way. This could be useful if in Xymon somebody doesn’t like the “All non green view” for any reason.
Have you looked at "admin > enable|disable"? If you have a 'red' alert, you can disable the test for a periodic amount of time or until it's resolved. The failed test will change from red to blue but the top level colour changes back to green.
I think this satisfies both of your requests (but I only quoted the first one for brevity)