Monitoring ntp clients?

Livio Zanol Puppim livio.zanol.puppim at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 17:43:43 CEST 2008


You can also use SNMP HOST-MIB to check if the time is coorectly.
snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 192.168.1.1 hrSystemDate
or
snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 192.168.1.1 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.2.0

2008/9/18 Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>:
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> stan wrote:
>>
>>> How can I monitor machines that are NTP clients to make certain that they
>>> have connections to the approriate NTP server? I want something that will
>>> return a summary of the type of info I get from ntpq -p.
>>>
>>
>> Use check_ntp_peer (I think).
>>
> I use check_ntp on each remote host against my ntp server, which warns
> if the host time is x seconds different from the ntp server time. This
> checks that the ntp server is accessible  from the box and that the
> current time on the box is correct and within margin.
>
> -h
>
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