[time-nuts] monitoring NTP servers?

David Holland david.w.holland+timenuts at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 14:00:29 UTC 2015


I have some pieces and parts inside of a Zabbix instance that do some
"home-class" NTP monitoring.

No alerts configured, but I wouldn't anticipate those being difficult to add..

I can forward (or send to the list) templates if anyone is interested.

David

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:53 AM, David Holland
<david.w.holland at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some pieces and parts inside of Zabbix that do some
> "home-class" NTP monitoring.
>
> No alerts configured, but I wouldn't anticipate those being difficult to add..
>
> I can forward (or send to the list) templates if anyone is interested.
>
> David
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Anders Wallin
> <anders.e.e.wallin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Is there a ready made set of scripts for monitoring a bunch of NTP servers?
>> Preferably for generic unix/linux like ubuntu.
>>
>> I imagine it would look something like:
>> 1. measure data with a test machine, either use output of "ntpq -p" or
>> perhaps python and ntplib. Variable measurement interval, perhaps 60s or so.
>> 2. store relevant data into RRDTool database (offsets, delay, jitter, etc)
>> 3. produce graphs with RRDGraph, and possibly Alarms (e-mail?) if a server
>> goes offline or way out of sync.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Anders
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