[ntp:hackers] stats plotting, was Re: Hourly statistics .. more often?

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Dec 22 08:18:03 UTC 2005


gnu not unix wrote:
> In message
> <122120051758.23745.43A997D90008CBB000005CC12161243646970A9C9C0E0409
> D20B0B019B at att.net> you write:
>
>> Danny, Harlan, Mssr Mills -  I have a set of RRDTOOL and MRTG
>> templates for pr inting out the stats of an NTP service - Interested
>> in having these added to t he NTP distribution kit?
>
>> todd glassey
>
> I'd be interested in seeing them. I've my own rrdtool set, with the
> numbers grabbed with a perl script and ntpdc (taken from the ntp
> pool project). Check out:
>
> http://www.wraith.sf.ca.us/ntp/rrd/
>
> Dave Mills has stated he'd prefer ntpq used to grab the numbers--
> I recall he said the ntpdc numbers weren't quite good.
> The script I use has ntpdc -c kern to grab the numbers.
[]
> ../Steven
> saw a jupiter-t on ebay recently (10khz output for freq ref)

I can offer:

  http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/mrtg/daily_ntp.html

  http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/ntp/NTPandMRTG.txt

using MRTG and Perl with ntpq just to plot offset.  Very simple, and good 
enough for me.

Cheers,
David 



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