check_ntp

[Hugh Jones]

As a (temporary) get around, we've installed ntpstat from
http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/ and called it using nrpe as it
correctly returns the error codes without any extra work. It may be of
help in the meantime, anyway...

Hugh Jones

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Andreas Ericsson
> Sent: 07 September 2004 09:32
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_ntp
> 
> 
> Leif Nixon wrote:
> > "C. Bensend" <benny at bennyvision.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>>The plugin considers an zero offset to be erroneous. I 
> don't know why.
> >>
> >>Check the archives; there was a lively discussion about 
> exactly this a
> >>month or two ago.
> > 
> > 
> > I know. We never did get that detail sorted.
> > 
> 
> check_ntp thinks an offset of 0 is erroneous because many ntp 
> servers by 
> default fetches time from the local system if it can't connect to the 
> preferred NTP server. A 'true' offset of 0 (where time is actually 
> compared to that of its higher stratum server) is very, very 
> rare. It is 
> more likely the result of imprecise system calls than the real status.
> 
> Nevertheless, it does happen (for one reason or another), so 
> it would be 
> nice to add an argument to skip it complaining about this. I'll get 
> going on that anyday now. ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> Lead Developer
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