[hobbit] NTP Graphing

[Ward, Martin]

Hey Henrik,

Thanks for this, I didn't even know I wanted one of these until it was mentioned!

Only issue for me is a Solaris-specific one, in that "rv 0 offset" doesn't work because the default Solaris ntpq program doesn't understand 0 as a valid association. I'm still trying to figure out a different way of getting the system time offset on a Solaris box (without installing a different NTP client!), have you heard of anything?

|\/|artin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik "Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: 28 January 2009 21:24
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] NTP Graphing
> 
> 
> In 
> <71D23AAE53176A4EB67247AFFADCC10C6D6C7E858F at FMAIL-CCR.synetrix
> hl.local> <Russell.Cook at synetrix.co.uk> writes:
> 
> >I am trying to graph the ntp offset of a few ntp servers. I 
> can see a 
> >defin= ition in hobbitgraph referring to [ntpstat] and have 
> defined the 
> >ntp test i= n the bb-hosts file, but I don't see any rrds being 
> >generated and obviously=  no graphs for the hosts.
> 
> >What do I need to do to make the graphs appear?
> 
> Heh, I didn't realize that had snuck into the distribution :-)
> 
> It's using data from "ntpq", running as a client-side add-on 
> on the box that you want to monitor ntp for. It's dead simple:
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # This script is an extension for the BB client running on
> # your server. It will feed data about the local NTP daemon
> # into Hobbit, where the offset between the NTP reference
> # clock and the local clock will be graphed.
> 
> $BB $BBDISP "data $MACHINE.ntpstat
> 
> `ntpq -c \"rv 0 offset\"`
> "
> 
> exit 0
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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