support a "soft" maintenance mode: * pputting the agents not servers into a maintenance mode ** suppress proactive elements - scheduled ops, etc - from triggering for resources on this agent ** suppress reactive elements - alerting, etc - from firing for resources on this agent this is useful for when you know you will be performing maintenance on some managed server and you want to suppress non-monitoring effects you have registered against resources managed by that agent
This bug was previously known as http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-673 This bug is incorporated by RHQ-620
The alerting issue around planned outages are captured in other places. This bug can be closed, future alerting work will open its own issues as needed.