In some circumstances you may no longer wish to apply a rule against a specific server or group of servers and in other circumstances you may want to suspend a rule for a short length of time. With this in mind, it is possible to disable or unschedule a rule.

To disable or unschedule an advisor choose the Current Schedule screen of the Advisors tab.

Rules may be disabled or unscheduled using the buttons on the upper or lower left of the screen. You may also change a rule by clicking the enabled or unschedule hyperlink to the right of a rule. The buttons are particularly useful when you are altering more than one rule.

To no longer run a rule against a specific server, expand the advisor group and the specific rule by clicking the + button. You may then click the unschedule button. When the dialog window opens, choose the unschedule button and that rule will no longer be applied. If you wish to back out of the operation choose cancel. If, at a later date, you wish to institute this rule again, you may do so from the Add to Schedule page.

If you want to suspend a rule temporarily, use the disable button and follow the same process you would for unscheduling. Once a rule is disabled the link under the status column changes to red and reads disabled. When a rule is disabled, data is no longer collected for that rule. A disabled rule is easily re-enabled by clicking the disabled link or by using the enable button.

Multiple rules may be altered for one or more servers by selecting the appropriate checkbox and then clicking the unschedule, enable, or disable button.