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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hello:</span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Lately we been getting pages for small timeouts that have
caused notifications to be sent out.  I decided to enable flap detection.    After
reading the documentation, I understood the strategy, but did not have any clue
where to start the values at for low and high flap thresholds.   I
decided to use the values that were in the documentation, but does anyone have
any recommendations based on experience of what values I should
use.     Currently,  I have every host and service set
to:</span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define service{</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        use                            
generic-service</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        host_name                      
SUNBOX</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        service_description            
Load</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        is_volatile                    
0</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        check_period                   
24x7</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        max_check_attempts             
3</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        normal_check_interval          
1</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        retry_check_interval           
1</span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>       
low_flap_threshold             
25</span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>       
high_flap_threshold            
50</span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>       
flap_detection_enabled          1</span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        contact_groups                 
HelpDesk,sun-admins</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        notification_interval          
60</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        notification_period            
24x7</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        notification_options           
c,u,r</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>        check_command                  
check_nrpe!check_load</span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'>        }</span></font></p>

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