To elaborate on the issue and update my current progress: I enabled flap detection and now get a threshold parameter for every host, as well as a percentage that I read about in the doc. My issue is however, that I need to set up the flap detection for the "service" not for the host. Any ideas?
Richard On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 14:03 -0400, Richard Galvez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a problem with the sensitivity of the check_ssh and check_ftp > services in my Nagios monitoring. I have a medium sized network of 100+ > servers all running ssh and ftp (with the exception of some) and the > service seems to come in and out, in particular with the ssh service > check. I know the problem, it's just that I have scan attacks regularly > on my network (no one gets in though) but I would like to suppress these > alerts as they don't pose an actual problem, just a scan attack. In > particular, the ssh service returns the string "server answer: " when > someone is scanning it, and I would like a way of just making that take > it to warning level rather than critical. > > Any ideas? I need to stop this flutter, I get alerted regularly.. > > Regards, > Richard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > !DSPAM:450c3c83101876312921047! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null