[Xymon] Comment on Flapping

[Tom Georgoulias]

On 03/29/2011 10:54 PM, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote:

> 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.

> (it would be even MORE useful to have a release button that only some
> folks could push...is there any seekrit workaround?)
>
> In our case we have a bit of a cascade situation, where one server can
> trigger a lot of secondary reds, so we end up looking at a whole lot
> of red...

Have you explored the depends tag at all?  It might help reduce or 
eliminate the cascade effect.  You can read about it in the hosts.cfg 
manpage.

Tom