Thanks very much! I thought and suspected as much but didn't know if I was missing something with regards to being able to clear flapping.
On 1/07/2011, at 1:39 AM, m...@catsnest.co.uk wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Jim Avery <j...@jimavery.me.uk> wrote: >> On 30 June 2011 11:42, Tim Philips <t...@rndgroup.co.nz> 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 >> 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 >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > 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 -- Thanks, Tim Philips (RHCE) RND GROUP LIMITED ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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