Flap Detection: Why do only HARD state changes count?

[ranjib dey]

This is by design. As you have mentioned you can tweak the Max check
attention to trigger hard state change soon after a soft state transition
On May 17, 2011 12:20 AM, "Paul M. Dubuc" <work at paul.dubuc.org> wrote:
> 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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