check_ntp

[Spencer Horn]

This morning nagios shows ntp as,


raptor <http://nagiosr0/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=raptor>

	
<http://nagiosr0/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=raptor#comments> 
<http://nagios/nagios/cgi-bin/utilmenu.cgi?HOST=RAPTOR&HOSTGROUP=LINUX> 	

	
NTP 
<http://nagiosr0/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=raptor&service=NTP>

	
<http://nagiosr0/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=raptor&service=NTP#comments> 
	<http://nagiosr0/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=raptor&service=NTP#comments> 


	CRITICAL 	06-15-2004 09:48:05 	18d 0h 31m 15s 	1/1 	server 
208.62.207.124, stratum 16, offset 7.837323, delay 0.02776 


notice the stratum has changed? What would cause that? offset is still 
less than 60 and alarming critical.

Thanks,
Spencer

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

>
>
> Spencer Horn wrote:
>
>> Why would NTP be alarming critical if the offset is less than 60 
>> seconds? default is 60 right? is my syntax incorrect?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Spencer
>>
>>
>> # 'check_nntp' command definition
>> define command{
>>         command_name    check_nntp
>>         command_line    /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nntp 
>> $HOSTADDRESS$
>>         }
>>
>
> check_nntp is a plugin to check news servers. Just thought you ough to 
> know.
>
> [ ridiculous html anchors cut away ]
>
>>     CRITICAL     06-14-2004 12:25:28     17d 3h 9m 6s     1/1     
>> server 208.62.207.124, stratum 0, offset 0.000000, delay 0.00000
>
>
> If I were a plugin checking time-servers, stratum 0 would definitely 
> make me nervous. Stratum 1 servers are the ntp 'root'-servers, so 
> stratum 0 doesn't really exist.
>
>>
>> [nagios at nagiosr0 libexec]$./check_ntp
>> No target host specified
>> Usage: check_ntp -H <host> [-w <warn>] [-c <crit>] [-v verbose]
>> [nagios at nagiosr0 libexec]$./check_ntp --help
>> check_ntp (nagios-plugins 1.3.0-beta2) 1.9
>
>
> Upgrading your plugins to a non-beta release should help things 
> running smoothly. 1.3.1 (stable) has been around for some time now, 
> you know.
>

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