I have been thinking about writing an NTP probe. I started by looking at the ntpdate utility, but it doesn't provide options for the query count and timeout. I then looked at the perl Net::NTP perl module, but its not suitable for direct use as a smokeping probe. The Net::NTP module doesn't support a configuration timeout or error handling routines. If you just wanted to write an NTP probe to measure NTP response time and query success, it wouldn't be too difficult. Implementing NTP authentication and NTP server response parsing/integrity checking would be more difficult.
Clinton. On 2013-06-12 02:36 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Has there been any thought about putting an NTP probe together for > smokeping, or has any work already been done in this area? Just curious. > > _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users