Monitoring ntp clients?

[Hari Sekhon]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> stan wrote:
>   
>> How can I monitor machines that are NTP clients to make certain that they
>> have connections to the approriate NTP server? I want something that will
>> return a summary of the type of info I get from ntpq -p.
>>     
>
> Use check_ntp_peer (I think).
>   
I use check_ntp on each remote host against my ntp server, which warns 
if the host time is x seconds different from the ntp server time. This 
checks that the ntp server is accessible  from the box and that the 
current time on the box is correct and within margin.

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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