Zenoss: Maintenance Windows

I have noticed that when I set a maintenance window for a device, it stops any related alerts for that device, but it does not stop the events from appearing with varying severity levels. In order to suppress the events to the same severity as the Maintenance Window notification, I use the following transform:

# Suppress any events during maintenance window
if evt.severity > 2:
    for mw in device.getMaintenanceWindows():
        if mw.started is not None:
            evt.summary = 'Maintenance: %s' % evt.summary
            evt.severity = 2

As you can see, the transform uses the same objects classes that the local python API uses, so you should be able to retrieve just about anything from the system. Stay tuned next time when I outline the time-based suppression/escalation code that I use for certain events.