[Xymon] Comment on Flapping

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Elizabeth Schwartz <
betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:

> First, let me say that this is very nifty.
> Flap detection makes folks look at things that they might have missed.
>
> It's driving the NOC folks **nuts** though. Acking the reds should
> stop them from paging, but the main page then stays red for a full
> half hour, even though the problem is completely fixed. IMHO it would
> be very useful to have a "release" or "ALL CLEAR"  button of some sort
> for flapping situations that have been dealt with. The NOC folks  hate
> red screens...
> (it would be even MORE useful to have a release button that only some
> folks could push...is there any seekrit workaround?)
>

I don't know much about flapping, but what happens if you manually send a
'green' status for the flapping service?

On the Xymon server:

     bb localhost "status server,domain,com.column green `date`
Flapped so hard we took off..."

If that does the trick it could be turned into your "seekrit" webpage for
certain select folks to be able to clear the status.

Did you try going to the Enable/Disable page and disabling the red things
with "Until OK" selected??  That would make the red dot go away until after
the next green report.

Ralph Mitchell
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