[Xymon] Comment on Flapping

Tom Georgoulias tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com
Wed Mar 30 19:52:44 CEST 2011


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



More information about the Xymon mailing list