nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, Has anybody gotten Nagois' check_ntp_* to play nicely with a remote openntp service ? It appears to rely upon services not implemented in openntp ? /Pete

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 08.05.2008 at 11:53 +0200, Pete Vickers wrote: > Has anybody gotten Nagois' check_ntp_* to play nicely with a remote > openntp service ? It appears to rely upon services not implemented > in openntp ? openntpd does not listen on port 123 by default: that's what Nagios would use to m

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, That's not the problem ! - the hosting is correctly listening, and indeed other hosts are correctly syncing to it. It's only the nagios check_ntp_* that doesn't like it. $ ~> grep -i listen /etc/ntpd.conf # Addresses to listen on (ntpd does not listen by default) listen on * $ ~> ps -

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-08, Pete Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody gotten Nagois' check_ntp_* to play nicely with a remote > openntp service ? It appears to rely upon services not implemented > in openntp ? this is against an OpenNTP server; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]:12>$ /usr/local/libexec/nagio

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Pete Vickers
that works fine: $ ~>/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ntp_time -H ntp1 NTP OK: Offset 0.0008395434124 secs|offset=0.000840s; 60.00;120.00; but, I'm trying to verifty the NTP server's health, not that my monitoring host is sync'd to it. "Notes: This plugin checks the clock offset b

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 08.05.2008 at 13:29 +0200, Pete Vickers wrote: >>> Has anybody gotten Nagois' check_ntp_* to play nicely with a remote >>> openntp service ? It appears to rely upon services not implemented >>> in openntp ? >> >> openntpd does not listen on port 123 by default: that's what Nagios >>

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/05/08 14:33, Pete Vickers wrote: > > that works fine: > > $ ~>/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ntp_time -H ntp1 > NTP OK: Offset 0.0008395434124 > secs|offset=0.000840s;60.00;120.00; > > but, I'm trying to verifty the NTP server's health, not that my > monitoring host is sync'd to

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:33 +0200, Pete Vickers wrote: > that works fine: > > $ ~>/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ntp_time -H ntp1 > NTP OK: Offset 0.0008395434124 secs|offset=0.000840s; > 60.00;120.00; > > but, I'm trying to verifty the NTP server's health, not that my > monitoring h

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nagios checks almost never have sufficient debugging mechanisms, and UDP > services dont send RST+ICMP. you should get an ICMP port unreachable if there is no UDP service listening. i haven't looked at nagios, but i

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-08, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Brian A. Seklecki ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nagios checks almost never have sufficient debugging mechanisms, and UDP >> services dont send RST+ICMP. > > you should get an ICMP port unreachable if there i