Prime Infrastructure - alerting only trunk interfaces?

a very important NMS customization option is to decide which interfaces are important and which not for alerting...
How is this possible in PI?
I want to differentiate between important uplink ports and e.g. unimportant client ports - and as a consequence receive no emails for unimportant interfaces.
In LMS this was possible via Bluk jobs disabling monitoring for certain interfaces.
Is this possible in PI?
Thanks in advance!
BR.herwig

Thanks Rob for your prompt answer
I wonder how the "Port Group" Feature plays into the Alarming Part of PI.
What if I disable "Auto Monitoring" and create(design) port groups containing only important uplink ports...
Now if I receive a Interface down Trap from a Switch client port,
does PI still trigger an alert, despit I previously disabled "Auto Monitoring" in System Prefs?
Or in other words: Are Port Groups only used for performance monitoring or also used for alert notification?

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