Re: [hobbit] NTP Graphing

[Dominique Frise <dominique.frise (at) unil.ch>]

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