check_ntp

[Irene Sakellarakis]

I added that and restarted Nagios. I'm afraid there's no change. Ntp is 
run as a cron job only on the Nagios host. Host1 is running ntpd as a 
daemon.

-Irene

On Mon, 19 May 2003, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:

> 
> You are missing the -H in the command definition.  It may have worked 
> without it in older versions, but release 1.3.0 requires the option.
> 
> You mentioned that nptd is being run from cron - is that the case for 
> host1 or is ntpd running as a daemon.
> 
> -sg
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 May 2003, Irene Sakellarakis wrote:
> 
> > The host is running an ntp server.
> > 
> > >From checkcommands.cfg:
> > # 'check_ntp' command definition
> > define command{
> >         command_name    check_ntp
> >         command_line    /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ntp $HOSTADDRESS$ 
> > -w 60 -c 180
> >         }
> > 
> > >From services.cfg
> > # Service definition
> > define service{
> >         use                             generic-service         ; Name of 
> > service template to use
> > 
> >         host_name                       host1
> >         service_description             NTP
> >         is_volatile                     0
> >         check_period                    24x7
> >         max_check_attempts              3
> >         normal_check_interval           3
> >         retry_check_interval            1
> >         contact_groups                  unix-high       
> >         notification_interval           120
> >         notification_period             24x7
> >         notification_options            w,u,c,r
> >         check_command                   check_ntp
> > 
> > 
> > OS on host1 is Red Hat 6.1, kernel 2.2.19
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Irene
> > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > check_ntp -H host1
> > > 
> > > - requires that host1 be running a ntp server.
> > > 
> > > What is the command config?
> > > 
> > > -sg
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Irene Sakellarakis wrote:
> > > 
> > > > check_ntp -H $HOSTNAME$ works just fine from the command line of the 
> > > > nagios server. I cannot get the web interface to display a check. I'm 
> > > > confused as to whether the check occurs at all (since it works from 
> > > > the command line) or if Nagios is, in effect, not updating this 
> > > > particular service.
> > > > 
> > > > The error message I get is: "NTP CRITICAL: No suitable peer server found - 
> > > > Server for ntp probably down"
> > > > 
> > > > What I've done so far:
> > > > 
> > > > *Updated all my plugins to the latest version from sourceforge.
> > > > 
> > > > *Specified the location of ntpdate in utils.pm to reflect the location on 
> > > > the nagios server (this location is different on the client I'm checking).
> > > > 
> > > > *ntpd seemed to be problematic on the host server, so I've stopped ntpd as 
> > > > a daemon and am running a cron job every 60 seconds to synchronize with my 
> > > > time server (stratum 2 server).
> > > > 
> > > > Any assistance is greatly appreciated,
> > > > Irene
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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