[ntp:questions] nagios

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Mon Jun 9 21:05:58 UTC 2014


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


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