check_ntp question

[Jonathan Rozes]

The check_ntp plugin does two things:

1. It uses ntpdate to see if the clock on the target host is synchronized.
2. It uses ntpdc to measure the dispersion/jitter of the time sources the
target host is synchronized to.

So it should do what you want. What output are you getting from the plugin?

jonathan

+++ Jonathan Rozes, Manager, Information Technology, Will Vinton Studios


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Colman [mailto:colman at ppllc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:14 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_ntp question
> 
> 
> 
> How is check_ntp supposed to work?  I am running ntpd on the 
> server that is
> also hosting nagios.  My ntpd server synchronizes with two 
> public stratus 2
> servers, and it serves the time to my internal LAN.
> 
> What is check_ntp supposed to do for me and how can I get it 
> do something
> useful?  I'd like to monitor that my ntpd server is actually 
> running and that
> it is properly synchronizing to the configured external ntp 
> servers (I just
> discovered that the servers I had been using for years have 
> gone off-line but
> I never realized it!).
> 
> Can check_ntp do this for me?  How?  I've played with it but 
> cannot get
> useful output.
> 
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