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is there a way to change the FLAPPINGSTART type of notification in the email generated by nagios. I'm new to Nagios, so I'm not quite sure what exactly is meant by "flappingstart". I would like to change the alert type to something more custom defined.

Flapping occurs when a service or host changes state too frequently, resulting in a storm of problem and recovery notifications

This can be counterproductive. You can read more about flapping here:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... pping.html

I don't think you can modify the "FLAPPINGSTART" notification in Nagios XI. You can read more about the $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro here:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... cationtype