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Emulab FAQ: Testbed Operations: How do I turn off idle detection?

> 	So we get periodic e-mails warning us that our nodes stuck in
> reloading or those in hwdown have been idle for such and such a time and
> could we please terminate or swap the experiment out.  While the reloading
> e-mails are somewhat useful the hwdown e-mails are definitely not.  Is
> there a way to turn off idle detection or reporting for special
> experiments like hwdown?

Your emulab-ops experiments were set up before the install process took care of this ...

In red dot mode, go to the experiment page for emulab-ops/hwdown. Click on Edit Metadata and you will see an option called "idle ignore" which tells the idle daemon to skip it.