Hi,
On 3/3/2006 12:08 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> A couple of our customers have complained about Nagios sending
> notifications for hosts and services when a host is in scheduled
> downtime. Since scheduled downtime usually means "we're upgrading it and
> then testing the upgrade", this usually means each and every service on
> the machine will be sending a couple of notifications, often along with
> notifications for the host itself.
>
> Going through the source, I see this is the intended behaviour
>
> $ grep -A 12 'SPECIAL CASE FOR FLAPPING' base/notifications.c
>
> to see what I mean.
I didn't look at the code as that wouldn't mean much to me...
> I'm wondering about the usability of this. One good
> solution is to simply remove the "return OK" after the check for enabled
> flapping-notifications. Another, imo less good, is to move the entire
> block of code to below the "normal" case.
>
> I thought I'd better check with people here to see how they feel about
> not getting flapping notifications for hosts and services in scheduled
> downtime before submitting a patch.
What you describe sounds like a bug to me.
> I'm also a bit unsure if this
> belongs in the 3.x beta branch or if it's to be considered a bugfix and
> thus to be incorporated in the 2.x branch.
Given the above, I'd think this would be worth a patch agains 2.x.
(And, while I'm just writing an answer to you - Thanks a lot for your
work and support on Nagios.)
Arno
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