## Deactivating Monitoring on a Device

The Start or Stop Devices function enables the user to selectively deactivate the monitoring of a storage device. This page indicates if the device is turned on and if this device is active under "Maintain Hosts."

Monitoring continues when the device is deactivated (turned off). However, email notifications do not occur for any faults that are detected while the device monitoring is in this state. Consequently, any errors that have been detected are logged and sent by means of the NetConnect Provider, but not by means of email notification.

1. Click the Start Devices link from the General Maintenance menu.

The Start Devices window is displayed.

2. Enable the Stop check box.
3. Click Submit Changes.
4. If the device is being tested or if faults are being injected into the device intentionally, select the Stop check box to temporarily stop the local notifications for a specific device.