[Xymon] how to disable flapping notifications?

[Root, Paul]

Alerts.cfg


Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink



> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
> Behalf Of kconnell at ryerson.ca
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 3:51 PM
> To: Josh Luthman; xymon-bounces at xymon.com; Tom S
> Cc: Xymon Email List
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] how to disable flapping notifications?
>
> I was wondering how to as well...
>
> You have DURATION where ? As a tag in the hosts.cfg ?
>
>
> Ken Connell
> Intermediate Network Engineer
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> Sender: xymon-bounces at xymon.com
> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:42:01
> To: Tom S<tsztur at gmail.com>
> Cc: <xymon at xymon.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] how to disable flapping notifications?
>
> I have it DURATION>2m
>
> Josh Luthman
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>
>
> 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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