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'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. 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.
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Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
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