[Xymon] how to disable flapping notifications?

[Josh Luthman]

Try to increase the --flap-seconds in tasks.cfg

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Tom S <tsztur at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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