[Nagiosplug-help] check_ntp errors cause UNKNOWN status

[Subhendu Ghosh]

ntpdate will get an answer when ntpq will not due to the fact that ntpq 
exposes much more info than ntpdate.  Take a look at the restrict line in 
ntp.conf

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Aaron Carr wrote:

> All I get is 156.70.35.1: timed out, nothing received
> ***Request timed out
>
> This is for multiple hosts that definitely DO have ntpd running on
> them.  If I use "ntpdate host", it works fine.
>
> Perhaps some of the features have been disabled?  There are some areas
> of the company that are freakishly locked down.
>
> Aaron
>
> On 8/24/05, Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> wrote:
>>
>> Can you check if "ntpq -np host" gets a response - if not you need to
>> modify ntp.conf access control on host.
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Aaron Carr wrote:
>>
>>> I removed the code you mentioned, and tried it on both Linux and
>>> Solaris hosts, but I'm still getting the same error on both:
>>>
>>> "Use of uninitialized value in division (/) at ./check_ntp line 421."
>>>
>>> Line 421 is "print ("NTP $key: $answer|offset=$offset, jitter=" .
>>> $jitter/1000 .     ",peer_stratum=$stratum\n");"
>>>
>>> On 8/24/05, Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bug 1267741
>>>>
>>>> Can you remove the $jitter = statement in the else branch at line 309:
>>>> }else {
>>>>       print "No match!\n" if $verbose;
>>>> #    $jitter = '(not parsed)';
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Aaron Carr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> plugin version - 1.4.1
>>>>> ntpdc version - 4.2.0a at 1.1190-r
>>>>> ntpq version - 4.2.0a at 1.1190-r
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/24/05, Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Aaron Carr wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been digging through the archives, but I don't see any solid
>>>>>>> answers to this question.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If I execute check_ntp at the command line, I get the following as my
>>>>>>> first line of output:
>>>>>>> "Use of uninitialized value in division (/) at check_ntp line 424."
>>>>>>> The next line reads "NTP OK: Offset 0.023199 secs|offset=0.023199,
>>>>>>> jitter=0,peer_stratum=5", which is great, but with the first line
>>>>>>> being the error, Nagios has already changed the status to "UNKNOWN".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone have a working check_ntp?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> plugin version
>>>>>> ntpdc version
>>>>>> ntpq version
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> -sg
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
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