[ntp:questions] nagios

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca
Tue Jun 10 12:15:15 UTC 2014


On 2014-06-10 03:38, Rob wrote:
> David Taylor <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>> On 10/06/2014 08:58, Rob wrote:
>> []
>>> Well, I now see that the readvar packet returns the data in the same
>>> format (as ASCII string), not as a fixed point value.  And I realize
>>> that ntpd operates in units of a microsecond anyway, not a nanosecond
>>> as the kernel itself.
>>>
>>> Most of the systems I want to monitor are synced to PPS, so the output
>>> of the readvar command is usually something like:
>>>
>>> offset=-0.001, sys_jitter=0.001
>>>
>>> It would have been nice if this was detailed a bit more, but apparently
>>> this is not going to happen.
>>>
>>> I downloaded your perl plugin and made some modifications to use it
>>> with the current ntpq output.  Let's see how it goes.
>>
>> Recent versions of NTP are now returning more digits of precision, as
>> the data has fallen below the microsecond level.  Try the most recent
>> development version.
>
> Is there a Debian source package available for that?

http://packages.ntp.org/debian/

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis


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