Re: [ntp:questions] MSF Anthorn, UK down
Hello! Why have such important service no backup transmitter/antenna like DCF77? Am 29.05.2014 08:20, schrieb David Taylor: > On 25/05/2014 18:04, David Taylor wrote: >> It looks like the UK MSF 60 KHz signal from Anthorn is down. I've seen >> one report that a clock stopped at 00:04 this morning (but I don't know >> whether that was UTC or UTC+01:00). > [] > > Update: it returned on Wednesday, 2014 May 28, at 12:56:01 UTC according to > David Malone, and was sending sensible data shortly after. > -- Best regards Marc-Andre Alpers PGP KeyID: 0x5EE93193 ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
Re: [ntp:questions] MSF Anthorn, UK down
On 06/09/2014 05:50 PM, Marc-Andre Alpers wrote: > Hello! > > Why have such important service no backup transmitter/antenna like DCF77? Whereas DCF77 might have a backup transmitter (I don't know), I observe DCF77 being down very often, albeit for short durations (5-10 mins). When I do receive it the signal is strong, so I don't think my observations are due to being too far away (I'm in Northern Belgium). Morale: don't put all your eggs in one basket. ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
[ntp:questions] nagios
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? ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
Re: [ntp:questions] MSF Anthorn, UK down
Jan Ceuleers wrote: On 06/09/2014 05:50 PM, Marc-Andre Alpers wrote: Hello! Why have such important service no backup transmitter/antenna like DCF77? Whereas DCF77 might have a backup transmitter (I don't know), I observe DCF77 being down very often, albeit for short durations (5-10 mins). When I do receive it the signal is strong, so I don't think my observations are due to being too far away (I'm in Northern Belgium). Morale: don't put all your eggs in one basket. Hi Mostly too weak in Lancashire UK but at least it has a very accurate phase shift seconds marker. MSF and GPS for me have occasional blackouts, ISTR inversion layer effects used to be common in this area but apparently it's now unknown. MSF was ok as fallback on rare occasions when internet was down. David ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
Re: [ntp:questions] nagios
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 ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
Re: [ntp:questions] nagios
Harlan Stenn 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