[ntp:questions] chrony as a server

Rob nomail at example.com
Mon Feb 16 08:43:51 UTC 2015


David Taylor <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> On 15/02/2015 22:40, Rob wrote:
>> I am experimenting with chrony 1.31 as an alternative on some PPS
>> synchronized servers.   It appears to run OK, it is tracking very nicely:
> []
>
> For me, there are two show-stoppers with Chrony:
>
> - no support for standard NTP monitoring commands.

Indeed that is a pity.
I am monitoring the server performance using a nagios plugin, and I
had to write a new one that uses chronyc tracking to retrieve the values.

Chrony should at least implement the peer and readvar commands from
ntpd/ntpq, in the port-123 protocol.



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