Has anyone had any luck importing direct to the Database; I would guess that you will need to restart the polling Engine if you do but there are times that I would accept that with the amount of data I need to add
As for custom data we change that all the time on the fly from outside Orion mostly to allow remore site to set a custom unmanage flag. this does two jobs one takes it out of their alert list and second puts it in a q for the NOC to formaly Un-manage within orion.
Andy