Reset Flapping feature and/or prevent Flapping_Stop notifications from being sent

[Dirk De Coninck]

Hi all,

I have a feature request:
Would it be possible to add a "reset flapping state" when a host or 
service is deemed to be in a flapping state?

Reason why I am asking is that I educated the Windows Sys Admins at my 
site to schedule downtimes when they have to patch their severs. I want 
them to use scheduled downtimes as this is a set and forget feature 
compared to "disable checks" or "disable notifications" that requires 
the admins to remember to enable this again after their patch window.
However scheduled downtimes don't prevent a host or service from going 
in to a flapping state (IMHO this should not be the case) and about an 
hour after the patch window a Flapping Stop notification is sent out to 
everybody.

Is it possible to somehow prevent "Flapping Stop" notifications from 
being sent out, but keep the "Flapping Start" notifications. I only see 
the "f" option for notifications to enable/disable all flapping 
notification.
The problem with this also is that when the sys admin got paged at 3 AM 
and resolved the problem, he/she will get another page about an hour 
later just to notify that the flapping has stopped. A flapping state 
reset would be a great help in situations like this.

Kind regards,
Dirk.



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