Yes, flapping status is a sort
On Feb 11, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Greg Earle <earle at isolar.DynDNS.ORG> wrote:
I'm running Xymon 4.3.12-2 server (yeah, I know ...) on my management system. (RHEL 6.5 currently)
A couple of days ago I migrated our central syslog server over to the Xymon server, so now "/var/log/messages" is getting a ton of stuff in it that it never had before since all my systems are now reporting in to it.
Ever since then I've seen something weird - every hour (for about 17+ hours) I was getting RED alerts for the management console's own "msgs" status, but the actual e-mail notifications don't show anything marked red in them!
It's either yellow or, as in the forwarded message below, green. I have no idea why I was getting RED alerts for this file if it thinks it's yellow or green - any ideas?
The only other thing I can add is that when I go to the Web page for mgmtconsole:msgs, it says "WARNING: Flapping status" at the top.
Is that a clue?
(Update: interestingly, it looks like the status has finally changed to green a few minutes ago - after having been red for nearly 17 1/2 hours. Still seeing "WARNING: Flapping status" on the svcstatus Web page, though.)
Yes, flapping status is essentially “pegged at red due to too many status changes.”
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