On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Jim Avery <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 June 2011 11:42, Tim Philips <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Tell me, is it possible to pass a command to the Nagios command file to >> clear (previous) flapping? I'm picking no - based on my understanding of >> the documentation but thought I would ask. >> >> The scenario is we have a number of "check software updates" that run and as >> such we schedule these daily. There is a scenario within the flapping >> "period" where there are and aren't updates some of the future "warning or >> critical" warnings get suppressed. >> >> The simple answer that springs to mind for me is to disable flapping for >> things that are scheduled over x number of hours. How are other people >> dealing with such things? > > You're right - there is no command you can pass to Nagios to clear the > previous flapping state. You could try disabling flap detection and > then enabling it again, but my guess is that Nagios will immediately > re-assess the flapping state based on the last 21 checks as soon as > you re-enable flap detection and you'll be back where you started. > > If your checks are only run daily, then I would say almost certainly > flap detection is of no benefit to you and should be disabled for > those services. If Nagios is basing it's assessment of whether the > service is flapping on the last 21 checks as described in the > documentation ( > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/flapping.html ), > then since your checks are daily, it could be a couple of weeks > sometimes before Nagios decides that flapping has stopped! > > IMHO, flap detection is only usually useful for those services which > are checked quite frequently. >
Yup we do the same thing, eg have flap detection disabled in the service template for long interval checks. The only way I know to clear the flapping status, is to cheat and manually schedule the check a load of times (or submit passive checks ;) -- Ritchie > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > [email protected] > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
