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Flap detection

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:55 am
by ebdavison
I have been trying to understand the actual mechanics of flap detection. I know that this is based on the percent of time that the service goes up and down. But what time window is used? Can this be tuned? I cannot seem to find this explanation in the documentation.

Re: Flap detection

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:13 pm
by ebdavison
Someone has got to know where this information is. Anyone?

Re: Flap detection

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:53 pm
by mguthrie
Check your nagios/etc/nagios.cfg file for the settings:

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high_host_flap_threshold=20.0
low_host_flap_threshold=5.0
I don't know for sure if those units are are minutes, or what exactly they're expecting, but that'd probably be the config to edit.