[hobbit] NTP Graphing

[Martin Flemming]

thank's a lot !

cheers,
 	martin

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Dominique Frise wrote:

> Martin Flemming wrote:
>>
>>  Hi, Martin !
>>
>>  Got you a solution for solaris ... or someone else ?
>>
>>  .. and second, who knows a good pluggin for monitoring timeservers for
>>  themselves  ?
>>
>>  thanks & cheers,
>>
>>      martin
>>
>>
>>  On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Ward, Martin wrote:
>> 
>> >  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
>> > > 
>> > > 
>
>
> "ntpq -c peers" also reports offset.
> On solaris 9/10 clients, you could use:
>
>
> $BB $BBDISP "data $MACHINE.ntpstat
>
> `echo offset=\`ntpq -c peers | tail +3 | head -1 | awk '{ print $9 }'\``
> "
> exit 0
>
>
> Dominique
>
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Gruss

        Martin Flemming


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