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Suppressing Polling

If you want to prevent a particular poll from being sent to a particular node, the node must be suppressed, and the poll must be suppressible. By default, polls are suppressible; however, nodes are not ordinarily suppressed. Therefore, keeping a poll from being sent to a node usually just involves turning on the node's Suppressed attribute. You may have to edit the poll as well -- if someone has turned off its Suppressible attribute.

The two sections listed below provide instructions on how to perform these tasks:

• Suppressing a Node
• Making a Poll Suppressible

Suppressing a Node

This section explains how to suppress a node by enabling its Suppressed attribute.

 
  To enable this attribute:

1. From the client's Admin menu, select Node List.

   The Node List window is displayed.

   

2. Select the node whose Suppressed attribute you want to enable.
3. With your cursor positioned over the selected node, click your right mouse button to display a pop-up menu that lists the actions you can take from the Node List window.
4. Select Suppress from the pop-up menu.

This operation is the equivalent of checking the Suppressed checkbox in the Node Definition window.

Making a Poll Suppressible

This sections explains how to make a poll suppressible by enabling its Suppressible attribute.

 
  To enable this attribute:

1. From the client's Admin menu, choose Poll List.

   The Poll List window is displayed.

   

2. Select from the list the poll whose Suppressible attribute you want to enable.
3. With your cursor positioned over the selected poll, click your right mouse button to display a pop-up menu listing actions you can take from the Poll List window.
4. Select Suppressible from the pop-up menu.

The poll is now suppressible, which means that the poll cannot cause NerveCenter to poll a suppressed node.