Whenever you're working on a system that is being monitored by ControlUp, you don't want to generate any alarms (planned maintenance). To do that you can set the "Exclude from ControlUp Monitor" Setting to "Yes" in the objects or folders properties.

There is always a risk of human error, where one forgets to set the setting back to "No" or "Inherit", leaving the system unmonitored even after the planned maintenance is over.

A view, icon or even report that shows what the setting is currently set to, could help immensely in avoiding such situations.

One could periodically check that all systems are included in the monitor that should be, without checking the property of every object/folder manually.