[ntp:questions] Monitoring Number of Clients
Mike Cook
michael.cook at sfr.fr
Tue Feb 7 16:23:19 UTC 2017
> Le 6 févr. 2017 à 21:10, Johannes Weber <johannes at webernetz.net> a écrit :
>
> Hello NTP list,
>
> I have one question concerning the monstats and mrulist commands. I am
> monitoring my NTP servers and I want to graph the current clients. I am
> using the "addresses" line from the monstats output.
> However, it seems that every client that is gone many days ago (!) is
> still listed within the "addresses" section and not only in the "peak
> addresses". Same is true within the mrulist output which lists addresses
> that have a lstint many days ago.
>
> So my question is: How can I get a number of the "most recent" clients,
> i.e., clients that have a lstint < 2000 or the like. (One bad approach
> might be to use the mrulist output and to grep all lines that have an
> lstint < 2000. But I am searching for a better way to do it.)
>
grep is great.
> Thanks in advance!
but try:
ntpq -c "mrulist mincount=2000"
There are a number of newish knobs to twiddle in ntp.conf as well with which to tailor the data collection strategy.
>
> Johannes
>
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