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This morning nagios shows ntp as,<br>
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<td class="statusCRITICAL">CRITICAL</td>
<td class="statusBGCRITICALACK" nowrap="nowrap">06-15-2004
09:48:05</td>
<td class="statusBGCRITICALACK" nowrap="nowrap">18d 0h 31m 15s</td>
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<td class="statusBGCRITICALACK">server 208.62.207.124, stratum
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notice the stratum has changed? What would cause that? offset is still
less than 60 and alarming critical.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Spencer<br>
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Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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Spencer Horn wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Why would NTP be alarming critical if the
offset is less than 60 seconds? default is 60 right? is my syntax
incorrect?
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Thanks,
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Spencer
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# 'check_nntp' command definition
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define command{
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command_name check_nntp
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command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nntp
$HOSTADDRESS$
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}
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</blockquote>
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check_nntp is a plugin to check news servers. Just thought you ough to
know.
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<blockquote type="cite"> 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 <br>
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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.
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[nagios@nagiosr0 libexec]$./check_ntp
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No target host specified
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Usage: check_ntp -H <host> [-w <warn>] [-c <crit>]
[-v verbose]
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[nagios@nagiosr0 libexec]$./check_ntp --help
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check_ntp (nagios-plugins 1.3.0-beta2) 1.9
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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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