Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> wrote: > Rob writes: >> I am trying to monitor NTP servers with nagios. >> I use the standard plugin check_ntp_peer. >> >> It appears that it is only checking the offset and jitter of the >> currently selected peer. When I run check_ntp_peer with some threshold >> it returns the same values as present on the ntpq output line with * >> at the beginning. >> >> I think this is wrong. It should do the equivalent of "ntpq -c rv" >> and pick the offset and sys_jitter values from there. >> >> Is anyone aware of a nagios plugin that does that? > > Have you seen http://support.ntp.org/Support/MonitoringAndControllingNTP > > and the check_ntpq nagios module it mentions that I haven't touched in a > Long Time? > > H
Ok I see that this one at least uses "ntpq -c readvar". I would prefer an implementation that uses the readvar packet itself, as I think that it can return more precision than ntpq does. (its float value formats are limited to 3 digits after the decimal) _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
