Detecting flaps isn't something we can do at the moment.

Syslog would be a possibility, if you can generate syslog message from these events.

SNMP traps aren't syslog, and we don't support them at all (because they're horrifically complex to handle and only a small subset of our userbase even know what they are!)

adam.

On 2018-07-16 08:45, Andrew Lemin wrote:

Alternatively, we’re happy to use an SNMP trap with a Syslog Rule (this is for some Cisco IOS and NXOS switches).

Does anyone know if that would work?

And would it require a transient ‘errdisable’ state? Ie;

errdisable detect cause link-flap

errdisable recovery cause link-flap

errdisable recovery interval 30

snmp-server enable traps errdisable

Their doesn’t seem to be an equivalent “snmp-server enable traps link-flap” sadly, so at the moment I cannot think of any other way of doing this without having to invoke an “errdisable” state for 30 seconds to get the syslog alert..

Thanks for your time and thoughts 😊

Andy

FROM: Andrew Lemin AndrewL@4d-dc.com REPLY-TO: Observium observium@observium.org DATE: Monday, 16 July 2018 at 16:28 TO: Observium observium@observium.org SUBJECT: [Observium] Flapping interfaces

Hi,

We are trying to create an Alert Checker to detect for flapping network interfaces.

How can we do this with Observium? Is this possible?

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