[Xymon] how to disable flapping notifications?

Tom S tsztur at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 22:22:37 CET 2012


Yes it shows red even though it's up but flapping. (network issues).
If it see's green I need it to clear the red and not pretend to be red
because it's flapping.

I just need to turn off flapping.  this was never a problem before 4.3.

Tom.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> Is it red for <30 seconds?
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Tom S <tsztur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All the hosts I have are duration 2m or more.
>>
>> I need to get rid of these alerts:
>>
>> ==
>> Xymon [185714] host1.domain.com :ssh CRITICAL (RED)
>> Service ssh on web1-stage-religare is OK (up)
>> ==
>>
>> Why am I getting RED alerts if the statis is OK (up) during one of
>> these 'flapping' instances?
>>
>> xymon version is 4.3.5.
>>
>> tia
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Reply
>> xymon at xymon to me
>> show details 3:21 PM (39 minutes ago)
>>
>> green  Thu Mar  1 15:19:21 2012 ssh ok
>>
>> Service ssh on web1-stage-religare is OK (up)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Josh Luthman
>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have it DURATION>2m
>>>
>>> Josh Luthman
>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>> Suite 1337
>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Tom S <tsztur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > How do I disable flapping?
>>> > Our host sometimes has issues and xymon starts spamming all kinds of
>>> > flapping messages.
>>> > I only need alerts if the host is not responding to a certain service and
>>> > not if it flaps.
>>> >
>>> > I have found:
>>> > http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man8/xymond.8.html
>>> > "Track the N latest status-changes for flap-detection. See the
>>> > --flap-seconds option also. To disable flap-checks, set N to zero. Default:
>>> > 5 "
>>> > where in the config do I put this?
>>> >
>>> > tia
>>> >
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