if evt.message.find("Error reading value for") >= 0:
    evt._action = "drop"

• drop ALL “oid x.x.x.x. is bad” events. whats the best way to do this system wide? (zenoss 2.4.1)
• utilizes heirarchical transforms; you can put the above transform at /Events to apply it to all events

dmd.ZenUsers.manage_addUser("zenoss-support", "zen0ss", ("Manager",))
commit()

• create new user for support

print "ID Location datasources severity escalateCount"
for template in dmd.Devices.getAllRRDTemplates():
    Location = template.virtual_url_path().lstrip('zport/dmd')
    for th in template.thresholds():
        print "\"%s\" %s %s %s %s" % (th.id,Location,th.dsnames,th.severity,th.escalateCount)

• print all thresholds that exist