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Re: [hobbit] ntpdate question
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- Subject: Re: [hobbit] ntpdate question
- From: "Asif Iqbal" <vadud3 (at) gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:17:14 -0400
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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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