[ntp:questions] manual change on clock time seems to inhibit ntp service.

David Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Fri Aug 23 18:19:24 UTC 2013


On 23/08/2013 14:27, Martin Burnicki wrote:
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> To see if NTP keeps adjusting the system time continuously and correctly
> you could run "ntpq -p" repeatedly in a command line window on your
> Windows machine, and watch how the reported offset (which is in
> milliseconds) decreases until it reaches and then stays at some minimum.
>
>
> Martin

Monitoring with MRTG is another option for the OP, here are some notes:

   http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/NTPandMRTG.html

and here some results:

   http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_ntp.php

If you choose to keep the loopstats you could use Meinberg's NTP Time 
Server Monitor program:

   http://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/sw/ntp-server-monitor.htm

or my own NTP Plotter program:

   http://www.satsignal.eu/software/net.htm#NTPplotter

-- 
Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu



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