Flap Detection: Why do only HARD state changes count?

[Paul M. Dubuc]

This isn't explicitly stated in the documentation, but it seems that flap 
detection state changes only apply to HARD states.  So it's possible that a 
service check and toggle back and forth indefinitely between OK and not OK 
(unless max_check_attempts is set to 1) and flapping will not be detected.  I 
tested this with a service that does this and verified the behavior.  The Last 
State Change time gets updated with each SOFT state change, but the % state 
change for flap detection remains at 0% until I set max_check_attempts to 1 
and let it toggle between hard state changes.

Is this a bug or is it by design?  Is there a way to include SOFT state 
transitions in flap detection?

I'm using Nagios Core 3.2.3.

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