Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-08-13 Thread Ulrich Windl
T g41...@motorola.com writes: Greetings: We have about 50 Linux/Solaris/Windows boxes running ntpd at several different sites. Some of the systems from time to time go out of sync. My question is there a way to test ntpd machines are all in sync with the master server? I was thinking of

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-21 Thread T
On Jul 20, 9:21 pm, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: Which may be chosen fromhttp://support.ntp.org/s2 Thanks for all the help. I've learn a lot about ntpd and found a lot of problems with our ntp setup here. o I'll change the servers to ones in the list above. o My Solaris boxes are

[ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread T
Greetings: We have about 50 Linux/Solaris/Windows boxes running ntpd at several different sites. Some of the systems from time to time go out of sync. My question is there a way to test ntpd machines are all in sync with the master server? I was thinking of using ssh to get on to each machine to

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread Jan Ceuleers
T wrote: We have about 50 Linux/Solaris/Windows boxes running ntpd at several different sites. Some of the systems from time to time go out of sync. My question is there a way to test ntpd machines are all in sync with the master server? The easiest way I can think of is to poll those

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
T wrote: Greetings: We have about 50 Linux/Solaris/Windows boxes running ntpd at several different sites. Some of the systems from time to time go out of sync. My question is there a way to test ntpd machines are all in sync with the master server? I was thinking of using ssh to get on

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread paul
On Jul 20, 8:38 pm, T g41...@motorola.com wrote: Greetings: We have about 50 Linux/Solaris/Windows boxes running ntpd at several different sites. Some of the systems from time to time go out of sync. My question is there a way to test ntpd machines are all in sync with the master server?

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread T
Does the problem manifest under all three operating systems??  Do all the machines involved run 24x7?  Is the network available 24x7?  What are you using for a master server?  Where does the master server get time Hi: Disclaimer: I know very little about ntpd. With that said. These

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread Jan Ceuleers
T wrote: Got a couple of quests here. He had box1thru50.domain.tld What does the .tld mean? I dropped that in the configuration file... Is the .INIT. in the refid field a problem? These are all Solaris boxes... Tom, Replace the box1thru50.domain.tld with the DNS names of your 50 boxes. If

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread David J Taylor
T wrote: [] Got a couple of quests here. He had box1thru50.domain.tld What does the .tld mean? Top level domain? I dropped that in the configuration file... Is the .INIT. in the refid field a problem? These are all Solaris boxes... Thanks Tom INIT means that NTP can't talk to the box,

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread David Woolley
Jan Ceuleers wrote: ce the box1thru50.domain.tld with the DNS names of your 50 boxes. If they're not in DNS, and you know their static IP addresses you can specify those instead. The .INIT. means that your monitoring host has not received any NTP packets from these machines at all yet. Two

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-07-20, David Woolley da...@djwhome.demon.co.uk wrote: I also noted that there was a poor choice of servers, i.e. a lot of well known, overloaded, stratum one servers, when it probably needs lightly loaded, local stratum 2 servers. Which may be chosen from http://support.ntp.org/s2

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread Nottorf, Stefan
Hello, We use Nagios to monitor our system - you can use one of the prepared checks (check_ntp_time) to monitor the synchronization of your nodes. You'll need the NRPE-Plugin for Nagios also. No costs involved (except your time, of course). Regards, Stefan -Original Message- Greetings:

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread Todd Glassey
T wrote: Greetings: We have about 50 Linux/Solaris/Windows boxes running ntpd at several different sites. Some of the systems from time to time go out of sync. My question is there a way to test ntpd machines are all in sync with the master server? Sure run a peering based log capture