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Is there a way to Temporarily Stop Monitoring a Server?

Is there an easy way to get MOM to stop monitoring a server without either uninstalling the Agent from the aforementioned server or by stopping the Onepoint service on the server.

If I stopped the service, would the service then send all Events in the Event log once it was restarted? The reason I’m asking is because we having problems with our Biztalk server. Every morning a few hundred jobs are processed by it. It’s been having some issues lately and because of the number of jobs being processed (and all of the subsequent retries) we are receiving about 4,000 alerts in MOM. I’d like to temporarily get MOM to ignore this server without having to uninstall the Agent. Any ideas?

Contributed By: Paul Reiner [MS]
Stopping the Onepoint service will simply queue up Alerts which will flow when the agent restarts. However, by clearing the event logs you can get around this. You would then get one message indicating the event logs wrapped and events were lost.

There are a couple of ways to proceed.

Find the rule(s) that are flooding you and disable them
Exclude the server from the MOM group that is used to distribute those rules. If you remove the machine from all rule groups the agent will automatically be removed within a couple of days
Stop the service and restart it after you clear the logs
Ignore the alerts from the one machine
Hit shift delete and delete them a page at a time