check_ntp_health

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Description

check_ntp_health was developed with the goal of providing a single tool for all aspects of time synchronization monitoring.

Motivation

Instead of installing a variety of plugins for monitoring NTP, Chronyd, etc., check_ntp_health should be the only plugin needed.

Documentation

Command line parameters

  • --mode The monitoring mode
  • --help Display help information
  • --hostname <hostname> The hostname or IP address
  • --warning <range> Warning threshold
  • --critical <range> Critical threshold

Modes

Keyword Meaning
clock-health Checks if a daemon is running, if there is a connection to the time server, and alerts if the time difference becomes too large

Examples

WARNING - no sync peer, no candidates. 
CRITICAL - ntpq connection refused 
CRITICAL - ntpq: No association ID's returned 
CRITICAL - ntp daemon is not running, cannot open /usr/sbin/ntpq 

# centrify
$ uname -a
AIX eu-oem-aix02 1 7 00F189244D00
$ check_ntp_health --mode clock-health
OK - clock is in sync with domain ad.consolcustomer.com

Download

Go to Github, clone and build.

Changelog

You can find the changelog here.

Gerhard Lausser

Check_ntp_health is released under the GNU General Public License. GNU GPL

Author

Gerhard Lausser gerhard.lausser@consol.de