[ntp:questions] Which number do you believe?
Erik Soosalu
esoosalu at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 17 16:48:07 UTC 2008
So in looking at the results of different commands for monitoring my NTP server, I'm trying to figure out what's "right"
In a script, I run ntpq -p, ntptime, ntpdc -c kern and ntpq -c rv one right after another so I can get the results from the system as close as possible to each other.
An example of what's bugging is
from ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
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*GPS_NMEA(1) .GPS. 0 l 3 16 377 0.000 0.000 0.031
and from ntpq -c rv
status=2444 leap_none, sync_uhf_clock/PPS, 4 events, event_peer/strat_chg,
version="ntpd 4.2.0 at 1.1161-r Sun Feb 26 05:12:14 UTC 2006 (1)",
processor="i386", system="FreeBSD/5.5-RELEASE", leap=00, stratum=1,
precision=-15, rootdelay=0.000, rootdispersion=0.703, peer=44873,
refid=GPS, reftime=cb39fdba.34aabb6a Thu, Jan 17 2008 11:15:54.205,
poll=4, clock=cb39fdc7.270256be Thu, Jan 17 2008 11:16:07.152, state=4,
offset=0.000, frequency=-2.122, jitter=0.002, stability=0.001
Why are the jitter numbers different?
Ultimately what I'm looking to do is catch a couple of stats so that I can do some light monitoring of the box and check to see if there has been any failures along the way.
Thanks
Erik
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