[ntp:questions] nagios

David Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Tue Jun 10 08:04:34 UTC 2014


On 10/06/2014 08:58, Rob wrote:
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> 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.

-- 
Cheers,
David
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