[xymon] Alerts : how State Flapping is handled by xymon?

[Henrik Størner]

In <AANLkTimHCzpYrtsSxw+hGtaCMcnpEM+eJjEb2dbheWDX at mail.gmail.com> akshar bhosale <akshar.bhosale at gmail.com> writes:

>we are trying to find as how State Flapping is taken care in xymon to avoid
>too many mails fo the same. any help will be appriciated.

In the 4.2.x versions, there is no flap detection at all.

4.3.0 RC1 detects flapping. By default, a status is considered "flapping"
if there are more than 5 status changes over a 30-minute period (this can
be changed, but it is a global setting - not per-host configurable).

When a status is detected as flapping, it is "locked" on the most severe
status. So if it was flapping between yellow and red, it will be locked
to "red" status. It will then stay red until it has been stable on
another color for at least 30 minutes.


Regards,
Henrik