host down -> flapping -> host up -> no host up notificatoin

[Ben]

Nagios 2 is rock solid, in my experience.

On Dec 31, 2004, at 2:05 AM, Ralf Gross wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use the nagios flap detection feature. Last week I got a host down
> notification, I was not in the office, so I waited a few minutes for a
> host up notification, but I got none. Then I asked a colleague by phone
> what the state of this host really is. The host was up and ok. Next 
> day I
> discovered the flapping message in the logfile, the host state was down
> and then changed to the flapping state.
> I found the following about flap detection in the docs:
>
> |1. Log a message indicating that the service or host is flapping
> |2. Add a non-persistent comment to the host or service indicating
> |   that it is flapping
> |3. Supress notifications for the service or host (this is one of the 
> filters
> |   in the notification logic)
> |
> |When a service or host stops flapping, Nagios will do the following:
> |
> |1. Log a message indicating that the service or host has stopped 
> flapping
> |2. Delete the comment that was originally added to the service or 
> host when
> |   it started flapping
> |3. Remove the block on notifications for the service or host 
> (notifications
> |   will still be bound to the normal notification logic)
>
>
> If I understand this right, there is no way to get a host up 
> notification,
> if the host was down at moment the flap detection happend? That's a bit
> anoying, especially when you are not in the office.
> I took a quick look at the nagios 2.x docs
> | Flapping notifications - Notifications are now sent out when flapping
> | starts and stops for hosts and services. This feature can be 
> controlled
> | using the f option in the notification_options for contacts, hosts 
> and
> | services.
>
> Is there any way to realize this with nagios 1.2? Maybe and existing 
> patch?
>
> If not, is nagios 2.0b1 (still called beta release) stable enough for
> production environment?
> How complicated is an update from 1.2 to 2.0b1, especially the config 
> files?
>
> TIA
>
> Ralf
>
>
>
>
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