[hobbit] ntpdate question

[Asif Iqbal]

On 8/29/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:00:54AM +0200, Dirk Kastens wrote:
>  > before updating our hobbit server to version 4.2.0, I tested the
>  > ntp configuration with the bb-ntp-1_4.sh script on the client
>  > nodes. When I now configure the server to use the ntp network test
>  > instead,  I realize that this doesn't work with most of our
>  > RedHat clients. I get the response
>  >
>  > ntpdate -u -q -p 2 a.b.c.d
>  > server a.b.c.d, stratum 0, offset 0.000000, delay 0.00000
>  > 29 Aug 10:53:26 ntpdate[3509]: no server suitable for synchronization found
>
>
> Funny, this is the second question about NTP checking this morning.
>
>
>  > The network test works with all AIX clients and with older
>  > RedHat clients.
>  > The manual page of ntpdate on a RedHat machine says, that
>  > "the ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution".
>  > Is there another way of testing the ntp synchronisation from
>  > the server side or do I still have to use the bb-ntp.sh script?
>
>
> Currently you have to use client-side scripts if the ntpdate program
>  does not work.
>
>  For the 4.2.0 release, ntp checking really was not on my mind. It
>  would make lots of sense to include the output from
>     ntpq -c "rv 0"
>  in the client output, and then process this on the server to pickup
>  the current synchronization status, stratum and clock offset, with
>  suitable configuration settings to trigger an alert if it loses sync
>  or the stratum gets too high.
>
>  You can regard that as a promise to improve this in a later version.

Excellent!

>
>
>  Regards,
>
> Henrik
>
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