Re: [Nagios-devel] RFC: Downtime and flapping

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Re: [Nagios-devel] RFC: Downtime and flapping

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On 02/03/2011 07:53 PM, Ton Voon wrote:
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> I think that if a host or service is in downtime, then the states
> should not be recorded in the state history (the last 21 states
> saved, used for the flapping calculation).
>

Sensible thinking.

>> From the code, I can see that Nagios does not record any soft
>> non-OK states in this state history. Any objections if I add "host
>> or service in downtime" to that exception?
>

None at all. In fact, +1 on doing so. This way, downtime makes all
effects of statechanges void and null, which makes perfect sense.

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