nagios showing warning of system time change

[Jonathan Angliss]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:21:39 +0530, ankush grover
<grover1711 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi friends,
>
>I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit. I have installed
>Nagios through rpm.  The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes
>nagios is showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the
>system time gets changed some false alarms gets generated. I searched
>it on the google but I am not able to find the correct solution.
>
>Ntp server is already set and servers are listed in ntp.conf file
>
>Nov 21 20:37:12 linuxmonitoring nagios: Warning: A system time change
>of 4398 seconds (forwards in time) has been detected.  Compensating...
>Nov 21 19:23:54 linuxmonitoring nagios: Warning: A system time change
>of 4398 seconds (backwards in time) has been detected.  Compensating..

Is your server really losing and gaining over an hour in time
difference?  That's an awful lot of time to be shifting.  I'd
recommend starting there to find out why your server shifts so much
before looking at nagios.

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
<jon at netdork.net>


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