"gluino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I am using the default ntpd setup in plain redhat box. Default > settings except for specifying a nearer time server. > Everything seems fine (ntpq pasted below), and it has been left alone > for months. > Said box hardly receives human attention, and is depended on for time > sync by a couple hundred local machines. > > My question is: how would I know if ntpd has problems. I'm thinking of > some kind of alert when ntpd is unable to contact any good time > servers, for example. > > # ntpq -np > remote refid st t when poll reach delay > offset jitter > ============================================================================ == > 203.117.180.36 .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 > 4000.00 > +64.109.43.141 130.149.17.21 2 u 534 1024 377 313.466 > -19.302 2.021 > +64.246.40.39 67.15.110.21 3 u 505 1024 377 253.106 > -13.209 0.184 > 127.127.1.0 LOCAL(0) 10 l 60 64 377 0.000 > 0.000 0.001 > *203.117.180.36 .ACTS. 1 u 582 1024 337 31.425 > 4.047 1.380 > > Assume the above is healthy? Well... marginal. Healthy now, but it wouldn't take much. You have four servers but one has never been reachable at all and two others are indeed very far away. Although the jitter isn't bad, I wouldn't trust them too much if the fourth server went away. Stability _would_ suffer. Generating alerts could be done by some simple checking of ntpq -p output from a cron job. Check that you have an asterisk and a few pluses. Check the stratum, reach, delay, offset, and jitter in the relevant lines. If you don't like what you see, send an email and have a human look closer. No matter with Richard and his exclamation marks say, I consider the local clock justified. Having several hundred clients following a single wandering server in the event of problems is probably preferable to all of them wandering aimlessly. Stratum ten is fine. Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
