service - up and down

[C. Bensend]

> Assuming we are monitoring a service. The service fails. We get a
> notification. The service was able to recover, we get a recovery
> notification. It fails again, then recovers again. Now we're getting up
> and
> down email messages. What is the best way to approach this scenario?

Fix the service?  ;)  That's the correct answer to your problem.

It sounds like Nagios is behaving exactly as it should, or am I missing
something?

Barring that, you can adjust the number of times the service fails before
it alerts.  Or, enable flap detection.

Benny


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