[Xymon] Flapping Status? What does it mean?

[jef.jagers at thomsonreuters.com]

A flapping status means that for that specific Host/test it receives more input from clients than normally expected.

Most of the time it indicates that or
1. xymon has been started on a server twice. (With different users perhaps?)
2. Two servers with the same hostname defined sent info to the xymon server for that same test.

To troubleshoot:
If you open the impacted test check the ip from the client sending the information. Look at the history of the test and see if you can spot a different ip there.
Check on the host from the test if xymon runs twice...


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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Maik Heinelt
Sent: donderdag, oktober 16, 2014 1:36
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Flapping Status? What does it mean?

We recently migrated our Hobbit 4.2 server to Xymon 4.3.18.
For some some clients, I noticed a warning "Xymon WARNING: Flapping status".
What is flapping status? how to avoid, but not disable it?

Maik
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