[Xymon] Phantom red statuses (Fwd: Xymon [750466] mgmtconsole:msgs CRITICAL (RED))

[Ryan Novosielski]

Yes, flapping status is a sort
> On Feb 11, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Greg Earle <earle at isolar.DynDNS.ORG> wrote:
> 
> I'm running Xymon 4.3.12-2 server (yeah, I know ...) on my management system.
> (RHEL 6.5 currently)
> 
> A couple of days ago I migrated our central syslog server over to the
> Xymon server, so now "/var/log/messages" is getting a ton of stuff in
> it that it never had before since all my systems are now reporting in
> to it.
> 
> Ever since then I've seen something weird - every hour (for about 17+ hours)
> I was getting RED alerts for the management console's own "msgs" status, but
> the actual e-mail notifications don't show anything marked red in them!
> 
> It's either yellow or, as in the forwarded message below, green.  I have no
> idea why I was getting RED alerts for this file if it thinks it's yellow or
> green - any ideas?
> 
> The only other thing I can add is that when I go to the Web page for
> mgmtconsole:msgs, it says "WARNING: Flapping status" at the top.
> 
> Is that a clue?
> 
> (Update: interestingly, it looks like the status has finally changed to
> green a few minutes ago - after having been red for nearly 17 1/2 hours.
> Still seeing "WARNING: Flapping status" on the svcstatus Web page, though.)

Yes, flapping status is essentially “pegged at red due to too many status changes.”

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