check_ntp on blade systems

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Mon Mar 30 14:00:51 CEST 2009


Chris wrote:
> I'm using check_ntp for some of my blade systems and it says: "NTP
> CRITICAL: No response from NTP server" By using the verbose mode I can
> see it's sending:
> 
> "sending request to peer 0
> re-sending request to peer 0
> re-sending request to peer 0
> re-sending request to peer 0
> re-sending request to peer 0
> re-sending request to peer 0
> re-sending request to peer 0
> re-sending request to peer 0
> re-sending request to peer 0
> 
> NTP CRITICAL: No response from NTP server"
> 
> I used tcpdump from the blade server and can see packets coming in
> from the nagios server.
> 
> I use check_ntp to monitor many of my other systems without any problem.
> 
> I also do lots of other checks (including various SNMP checks) on the
> blade system via Nagios without any problem.
> 

It seems your blade server isn't running an NTP daemon in listening
mode.

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