Thanks Ron. I'll try editing poll-outages.xml directly using that approach.

The following passed through the event notification validation:

(IPADDR IPLIKE ... & ! foreignSource = 'UnixTeam')

And listed some 1300+ interfaces that weren't attached to something in the UnixTeam requisition.

Hi Ron, thanks for that pointer. In that approach, one would have to create a surveillance category that would include most nodes but still exclude the desired specific nodes and use that for the outage definition. The difficult part would be to replicate the "all nodes except X" logic. I'm not aware if surveillance categories can be defined to include all nodes, including nodes added in the future, except for specified nodes. If one could use negative logic with scheduled outages with a surveillance category (e.g. outage for all nodes except category-veryimportant-nodes) that would be the most elegant way of specifying the above.

If this could be accomplished using a surveillance category, then see open issue , (adding surveillance category filtering to outages).