check_ntp

[Richard Mayhew]

Hi,

One thing you could try is to make sure you specify the arguments rather
than just loosly listing them
..

ie.
Usage: check_ntp -H <host> [-w <warn>] [-c <crit>] [-j <warn>] [-k <crit>]
[-v verbose]

How do you run the command with your variables?

Cheers

Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave O'Shea" <daveoshea at sbcglobal.net>
To: "andy proctor" <andyjproctor at hotmail.com>;
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_ntp


> I'm getting a similar problem with check_ntp - except
> that it keeps saying that a server is stratum 2, which
> should be acceptable under the defaults.
>
> --- andy proctor <andyjproctor at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > When nagios was first compiled this worked ok but
> > now it seems to be
> > mis-reporting ntp and jitter errors, I cannot work
> > out why this is as there
> > have not been any changes made to config.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nagios reports that "NTP WARNING: Jitter error and
> > jitter 0.06 msec > +/-
> > msec " why this is so I don't know as the limits for
> > jitter are 5 and 10
> > seconds.
> >
> >
> >
> > When I run the command from the command line
> > everything appears ok
> >
> > Eg. NTP OK: Offset 0.000003 secs, jitter 0.06 msec,
> > peer is stratum 3
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andy Proctor
> > andyjproctor at hotmail.com
> >
> >
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