Alerts : how State Flapping is handled by xymon?

list Jason Chambers
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:04:05 +0000
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Hi Henrik,

Is this easy to change? I want to know if there are too many state changes in 1 hour instead, how I would go about changing this?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik StÃ¸rner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: January-31-11 5:57 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] Alerts : how State Flapping is handled by xymon?

In <user-3b156101b31a@xymon.invalid> akshar bhosale <user-ef04175556bd@xymon.invalid> 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