[RFC] Flapping-notifications (mis)feature

[Ethan Galstad]

On 3 Mar 2006 at 12:08, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks for the note.  This is indeed a bug.  Patches will be posted 
to CVS shortly.


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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