[Xymon] CLOCK and CPU test

[John Thurston]

On 9/25/2013 2:05 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> Just FYI, the clock drift is measured by comparing the date/time sent at
> the bottom of the client message against the Xymon server clock.  I have
> some systems on slow network connections and sometimes it takes a couple of
> retries for the status report to get through, and by then the client time
> is often 10 - 30 seconds adrift.
>
> In other words, it's not simply the client working out that its own clock
> is slow.

I know that Ryan specifically said he didn't want to go the route of an 
ext script. I mention this here for others who may search the archives 
for this topic.

I use an ext script which looks at the output of "/usr/sbin/xntpdc -sn"
It sends a yellow if the clock has drifted more than a second or is 
synchronized at a stratum greater than 9. It sends a red if the clock 
has drifted more than five seconds.

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