About Device Event Notification Suppressions

When a device event is processed by the system it can be sent to one or many external applications interested in being notified about the event. A prime example of this is the Outage Management System subscribing to any device events related to a meter either losing power or regaining power.

There are situations, such as a field worker performing maintenance on a meter or on a node that impacts many meters, that will result in a large amount of device events being created, processed, and distributed to subscribers.

Device event notification suppressions provides a way for a subscribing system, in anticipation of scheduled maintenance, to suppress notification of certain device events (power down, power up, tamper, etc) from one or more meters.