check_ntp question

[Jake Colman]

How is check_ntp supposed to work?  I am running ntpd on the server that is
also hosting nagios.  My ntpd server synchronizes with two public stratus 2
servers, and it serves the time to my internal LAN.

What is check_ntp supposed to do for me and how can I get it do something
useful?  I'd like to monitor that my ntpd server is actually running and that
it is properly synchronizing to the configured external ntp servers (I just
discovered that the servers I had been using for years have gone off-line but
I never realized it!).

Can check_ntp do this for me?  How?  I've played with it but cannot get
useful output.

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Jake Colman                     

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