4 files changed, 334 insertions, 717 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/Makefile.am b/plugins/Makefile.am
index c0486bc..eafcc5c 100644
--- a/plugins/Makefile.am
+++ b/plugins/Makefile.am
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ MATHLIBS = @MATHLIBS@
 #AM_CFLAGS = -Wall
 
 libexec_PROGRAMS = check_apt check_cluster check_disk check_dummy check_http check_load \
-        check_mrtg check_mrtgtraf check_ntp check_nwstat check_overcr check_ping \
-        check_real check_smtp check_ssh check_tcp check_time \
+        check_mrtg check_mrtgtraf check_ntp check_ntp_peer check_nwstat check_overcr check_ping \
+        check_real check_smtp check_ssh check_tcp check_time check_ntp_time \
         check_ups check_users negate \
         urlize @EXTRAS@
 
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ check_mysql_query_LDADD = $(NETLIBS) $(MYSQLLIBS)
 check_nagios_LDADD = $(BASEOBJS) runcmd.o
 check_nt_LDADD = $(NETLIBS) 
 check_ntp_LDADD = $(NETLIBS) $(MATHLIBS)
+check_ntp_peer_LDADD = $(NETLIBS) $(MATHLIBS)
 check_nwstat_LDADD = $(NETLIBS)
 check_overcr_LDADD = $(NETLIBS)
 check_pgsql_LDADD = $(NETLIBS) $(PGLIBS)
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ check_ssh_LDADD = $(NETLIBS)
 check_swap_LDADD = $(MATHLIBS) $(BASEOBJS) popen.o
 check_tcp_LDADD = $(SSLOBJS) $(NETLIBS) $(SSLLIBS)
 check_time_LDADD = $(NETLIBS)
+check_ntp_time_LDADD = $(NETLIBS) $(MATHLIBS)
 check_ups_LDADD = $(NETLIBS)
 check_users_LDADD = $(BASEOBJS) popen.o
 check_by_ssh_LDADD = $(NETLIBS) runcmd.o
@@ -110,6 +112,7 @@ check_mysql_query_DEPENDENCIES = check_mysql_query.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_nagios_DEPENDENCIES = check_nagios.c $(BASEOBJS) runcmd.o $(DEPLIBS)
 check_nt_DEPENDENCIES = check_nt.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_ntp_DEPENDENCIES = check_ntp.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
+check_ntp_peer_DEPENDENCIES = check_ntp_peer.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_nwstat_DEPENDENCIES = check_nwstat.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_overcr_DEPENDENCIES = check_overcr.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_pgsql_DEPENDENCIES = check_pgsql.c $(NETOBJS)  $(DEPLIBS)
@@ -123,6 +126,7 @@ check_ssh_DEPENDENCIES = check_ssh.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_swap_DEPENDENCIES = check_swap.c $(BASEOBJS) popen.o $(DEPLIBS)
 check_tcp_DEPENDENCIES = check_tcp.c $(SSLOBJS) $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_time_DEPENDENCIES = check_time.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
+check_ntp_time_DEPENDENCIES = check_ntp_time.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_ups_DEPENDENCIES = check_ups.c $(NETOBJS) $(DEPLIBS)
 check_users_DEPENDENCIES = check_users.c $(BASEOBJS) popen.o $(DEPLIBS)
 check_by_ssh_DEPENDENCIES = check_by_ssh.c $(NETOBJS) runcmd.o $(DEPLIBS)
diff --git a/plugins/check_ntp_peer.c b/plugins/check_ntp_peer.c
index 164d519..1c4702c 100644
--- a/plugins/check_ntp_peer.c
+++ b/plugins/check_ntp_peer.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /******************************************************************************
 *
-* Nagios check_ntp plugin
+* Nagios check_ntp_peer plugin
 *
 * License: GPL
 * Copyright (c) 2006 sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>
@@ -10,11 +10,16 @@
 *
 * Description:
 *
-* This file contains the check_ntp plugin
+* This file contains the check_ntp_peer plugin
 *
-*  This plugin to check ntp servers independant of any commandline
+*  This plugin checks an NTP server independent of any commandline
 *  programs or external libraries.
 *
+*  Use this plugin to check the health of an NTP server. It supports
+*  checking the offset with the sync peer, the jitter and stratum. This
+*  plugin will not check the clock offset between the local host and NTP
+*  server; please use check_ntp_time for that purpose.
+*
 *
 * License Information:
 *
@@ -36,7 +41,7 @@
  
 *****************************************************************************/
 
-const char *progname = "check_ntp";
+const char *progname = "check_ntp_peer";
 const char *revision = "$Revision$";
 const char *copyright = "2007";
 const char *email = "nagiosplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net";
@@ -47,51 +52,28 @@ const char *email = "nagiosplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net";
 
 static char *server_address=NULL;
 static int verbose=0;
+static int quiet=0;
 static short do_offset=0;
 static char *owarn="60";
 static char *ocrit="120";
+static short do_stratum=0;
+static char *swarn="-1:16";
+static char *scrit="-1:16";
 static short do_jitter=0;
-static char *jwarn="5000";
-static char *jcrit="10000";
+static char *jwarn="-1:5000";
+static char *jcrit="-1:10000";
+static int syncsource_found=0;
 
 int process_arguments (int, char **);
 thresholds *offset_thresholds = NULL;
 thresholds *jitter_thresholds = NULL;
+thresholds *stratum_thresholds = NULL;
 void print_help (void);
 void print_usage (void);
 
-/* number of times to perform each request to get a good average. */
-#define AVG_NUM 4
-
 /* max size of control message data */
 #define MAX_CM_SIZE 468
 
-/* this structure holds everything in an ntp request/response as per rfc1305 */
-typedef struct {
-        uint8_t flags;       /* byte with leapindicator,vers,mode. see macros */
-        uint8_t stratum;     /* clock stratum */
-        int8_t poll;         /* polling interval */
-        int8_t precision;    /* precision of the local clock */
-        int32_t rtdelay;     /* total rt delay, as a fixed point num. see macros */
-        uint32_t rtdisp;     /* like above, but for max err to primary src */
-        uint32_t refid;      /* ref clock identifier */
-        uint64_t refts;      /* reference timestamp.  local time local clock */
-        uint64_t origts;     /* time at which request departed client */
-        uint64_t rxts;       /* time at which request arrived at server */
-        uint64_t txts;       /* time at which request departed server */
-} ntp_message;
-
-/* this structure holds data about results from querying offset from a peer */
-typedef struct {
-        time_t waiting;         /* ts set when we started waiting for a response */ 
-        int num_responses;      /* number of successfully recieved responses */
-        uint8_t stratum;        /* copied verbatim from the ntp_message */
-        double rtdelay;         /* converted from the ntp_message */
-        double rtdisp;          /* converted from the ntp_message */
-        double offset[AVG_NUM]; /* offsets from each response */
-        uint8_t flags;       /* byte with leapindicator,vers,mode. see macros */
-} ntp_server_results;
-
 /* this structure holds everything in an ntp control message as per rfc1305 */
 typedef struct {
         uint8_t flags;       /* byte with leapindicator,vers,mode. see macros */
@@ -147,57 +129,6 @@ typedef struct {
 #define PEER_INCLUDED 0x04
 #define PEER_SYNCSOURCE 0x06
 
-/**
- ** a note about the 32-bit "fixed point" numbers:
- **
- they are divided into halves, each being a 16-bit int in network byte order:
- - the first 16 bits are an int on the left side of a decimal point.
- - the second 16 bits represent a fraction n/(2^16)
- likewise for the 64-bit "fixed point" numbers with everything doubled :) 
- **/
-
-/* macros to access the left/right 16 bits of a 32-bit ntp "fixed point"
-   number.  note that these can be used as lvalues too */
-#define L16(x) (((uint16_t*)&x)[0])
-#define R16(x) (((uint16_t*)&x)[1])
-/* macros to access the left/right 32 bits of a 64-bit ntp "fixed point"
-   number.  these too can be used as lvalues */
-#define L32(x) (((uint32_t*)&x)[0])
-#define R32(x) (((uint32_t*)&x)[1])
-
-/* ntp wants seconds since 1/1/00, epoch is 1/1/70.  this is the difference */
-#define EPOCHDIFF 0x83aa7e80UL
-
-/* extract a 32-bit ntp fixed point number into a double */
-#define NTP32asDOUBLE(x) (ntohs(L16(x)) + (double)ntohs(R16(x))/65536.0)
-
-/* likewise for a 64-bit ntp fp number */
-#define NTP64asDOUBLE(n) (double)(((uint64_t)n)?\
-                         (ntohl(L32(n))-EPOCHDIFF) + \
-                         (.00000001*(0.5+(double)(ntohl(R32(n))/42.94967296))):\
-                         0)
-
-/* convert a struct timeval to a double */
-#define TVasDOUBLE(x) (double)(x.tv_sec+(0.000001*x.tv_usec))
-
-/* convert an ntp 64-bit fp number to a struct timeval */
-#define NTP64toTV(n,t) \
-        do{ if(!n) t.tv_sec = t.tv_usec = 0; \
-            else { \
-                        t.tv_sec=ntohl(L32(n))-EPOCHDIFF; \
-                        t.tv_usec=(int)(0.5+(double)(ntohl(R32(n))/4294.967296)); \
-                } \
-        }while(0)
-
-/* convert a struct timeval to an ntp 64-bit fp number */
-#define TVtoNTP64(t,n) \
-        do{ if(!t.tv_usec && !t.tv_sec) n=0x0UL; \
-                else { \
-                        L32(n)=htonl(t.tv_sec + EPOCHDIFF); \
-                        R32(n)=htonl((uint64_t)((4294.967296*t.tv_usec)+.5)); \
-                } \
-        } while(0)
-
 /* NTP control message header is 12 bytes, plus any data in the data
  * field, plus null padding to the nearest 32-bit boundary per rfc.
  */
@@ -210,42 +141,6 @@ typedef struct {
                 printf("%u.%u.%u.%u", (x>>24)&0xff, (x>>16)&0xff, (x>>8)&0xff, x&0xff);\
         }while(0);
 
-/* calculate the offset of the local clock */
-static inline double calc_offset(const ntp_message *m, const struct timeval *t){
-        double client_tx, peer_rx, peer_tx, client_rx;
-        client_tx = NTP64asDOUBLE(m->origts);
-        peer_rx = NTP64asDOUBLE(m->rxts);
-        peer_tx = NTP64asDOUBLE(m->txts);
-        client_rx=TVasDOUBLE((*t));
-        return (.5*((peer_tx-client_rx)+(peer_rx-client_tx)));
-}
-
-/* print out a ntp packet in human readable/debuggable format */
-void print_ntp_message(const ntp_message *p){
-        struct timeval ref, orig, rx, tx;
-
-        NTP64toTV(p->refts,ref);
-        NTP64toTV(p->origts,orig);
-        NTP64toTV(p->rxts,rx);
-        NTP64toTV(p->txts,tx);
-
-        printf("packet contents:\n");
-        printf("\tflags: 0x%.2x\n", p->flags);
-        printf("\t  li=%d (0x%.2x)\n", LI(p->flags), p->flags&LI_MASK);
-        printf("\t  vn=%d (0x%.2x)\n", VN(p->flags), p->flags&VN_MASK);
-        printf("\t  mode=%d (0x%.2x)\n", MODE(p->flags), p->flags&MODE_MASK);
-        printf("\tstratum = %d\n", p->stratum);
-        printf("\tpoll = %g\n", pow(2, p->poll));
-        printf("\tprecision = %g\n", pow(2, p->precision));
-        printf("\trtdelay = %-.16g\n", NTP32asDOUBLE(p->rtdelay));
-        printf("\trtdisp = %-.16g\n", NTP32asDOUBLE(p->rtdisp));
-        printf("\trefid = %x\n", p->refid);
-        printf("\trefts = %-.16g\n", NTP64asDOUBLE(p->refts));
-        printf("\torigts = %-.16g\n", NTP64asDOUBLE(p->origts));
-        printf("\trxts = %-.16g\n", NTP64asDOUBLE(p->rxts));
-        printf("\ttxts = %-.16g\n", NTP64asDOUBLE(p->txts));
-}
-
 void print_ntp_control_message(const ntp_control_message *p){
         int i=0, numpeers=0;
         const ntp_assoc_status_pair *peer=NULL;
@@ -282,222 +177,25 @@ void print_ntp_control_message(const ntp_control_message *p){
         }
 }
 
-void setup_request(ntp_message *p){
-        struct timeval t;
-
-        memset(p, 0, sizeof(ntp_message));
-        LI_SET(p->flags, LI_ALARM);
-        VN_SET(p->flags, 4);
-        MODE_SET(p->flags, MODE_CLIENT);
-        p->poll=4;
-        p->precision=(int8_t)0xfa;
-        L16(p->rtdelay)=htons(1);
-        L16(p->rtdisp)=htons(1);
-
-        gettimeofday(&t, NULL);
-        TVtoNTP64(t,p->txts);
-}
-
-/* select the "best" server from a list of servers, and return its index.
- * this is done by filtering servers based on stratum, dispersion, and
- * finally round-trip delay. */
-int best_offset_server(const ntp_server_results *slist, int nservers){
-        int i=0, j=0, cserver=0, candidates[5], csize=0;
-
-        /* for each server */
-        for(cserver=0; cserver<nservers; cserver++){
-                /* sort out servers with error flags */
-                if ( LI(slist[cserver].flags) != LI_NOWARNING ){
-                        if (verbose) printf("discarding peer id %d: flags=%d\n", cserver, LI(slist[cserver].flags));
-                        break;
-                }
-
-                /* compare it to each of the servers already in the candidate list */
-                for(i=0; i<csize; i++){
-                        /* does it have an equal or better stratum? */
-                        if(slist[cserver].stratum <= slist[i].stratum){
-                                /* does it have an equal or better dispersion? */
-                                if(slist[cserver].rtdisp <= slist[i].rtdisp){
-                                        /* does it have a better rtdelay? */
-                                        if(slist[cserver].rtdelay < slist[i].rtdelay){
-                                                break;
-                                        }
-                                }
-                        }
-                }
-
-                /* if we haven't reached the current list's end, move everyone
-                 * over one to the right, and insert the new candidate */
-                if(i<csize){
-                        for(j=5; j>i; j--){
-                                candidates[j]=candidates[j-1];
-                        }
-                }
-                /* regardless, if they should be on the list... */
-                if(i<5) {
-                        candidates[i]=cserver;
-                        if(csize<5) csize++;
-                /* otherwise discard the server */
-                } else {
-                        DBG(printf("discarding peer id %d\n", cserver));
-                }
-        }
-
-        if(csize>0) {
-                DBG(printf("best server selected: peer %d\n", candidates[0]));
-                return candidates[0];
-        } else {
-                DBG(printf("no peers meeting synchronization criteria :(\n"));
-                return -1;
-        }
-}
-
-/* do everything we need to get the total average offset
- * - we use a certain amount of parallelization with poll() to ensure
- *   we don't waste time sitting around waiting for single packets. 
- * - we also "manually" handle resolving host names and connecting, because
- *   we have to do it in a way that our lazy macros don't handle currently :( */
-double offset_request(const char *host, int *status){
-        int i=0, j=0, ga_result=0, num_hosts=0, *socklist=NULL, respnum=0;
-        int servers_completed=0, one_written=0, one_read=0, servers_readable=0, best_index=-1;
-        time_t now_time=0, start_ts=0;
-        ntp_message *req=NULL;
-        double avg_offset=0.;
-        struct timeval recv_time;
-        struct addrinfo *ai=NULL, *ai_tmp=NULL, hints;
-        struct pollfd *ufds=NULL;
-        ntp_server_results *servers=NULL;
-
-        /* setup hints to only return results from getaddrinfo that we'd like */
-        memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(struct addrinfo));
-        hints.ai_family = address_family;
-        hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_UDP;
-        hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;
-
-        /* fill in ai with the list of hosts resolved by the host name */
-        ga_result = getaddrinfo(host, "123", &hints, &ai);
-        if(ga_result!=0){
-                die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "error getting address for %s: %s\n",
-                    host, gai_strerror(ga_result));
-        }
-
-        /* count the number of returned hosts, and allocate stuff accordingly */
-        for(ai_tmp=ai; ai_tmp!=NULL; ai_tmp=ai_tmp->ai_next){ num_hosts++; }
-        req=(ntp_message*)malloc(sizeof(ntp_message)*num_hosts);
-        if(req==NULL) die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "can not allocate ntp message array");
-        socklist=(int*)malloc(sizeof(int)*num_hosts);
-        if(socklist==NULL) die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "can not allocate socket array");
-        ufds=(struct pollfd*)malloc(sizeof(struct pollfd)*num_hosts);
-        if(ufds==NULL) die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "can not allocate socket array");
-        servers=(ntp_server_results*)malloc(sizeof(ntp_server_results)*num_hosts);
-        if(servers==NULL) die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "can not allocate server array");
-        memset(servers, 0, sizeof(ntp_server_results)*num_hosts);
-
-        /* setup each socket for writing, and the corresponding struct pollfd */
-        ai_tmp=ai;
-        for(i=0;ai_tmp;i++){
-                socklist[i]=socket(ai_tmp->ai_family, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
-                if(socklist[i] == -1) {
-                        perror(NULL);
-                        die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "can not create new socket");
-                }
-                if(connect(socklist[i], ai_tmp->ai_addr, ai_tmp->ai_addrlen)){
-                        die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "can't create socket connection");
-                } else {
-                        ufds[i].fd=socklist[i];
-                        ufds[i].events=POLLIN;
-                        ufds[i].revents=0;
-                }
-                ai_tmp = ai_tmp->ai_next;
-        }
-
-        /* now do AVG_NUM checks to each host.  we stop before timeout/2 seconds
-         * have passed in order to ensure post-processing and jitter time. */
-        now_time=start_ts=time(NULL);
-        while(servers_completed<num_hosts && now_time-start_ts <= socket_timeout/2){
-                /* loop through each server and find each one which hasn't
-                 * been touched in the past second or so and is still lacking
-                 * some responses.  for each of these servers, send a new request,
-                 * and update the "waiting" timestamp with the current time. */
-                one_written=0;
-                now_time=time(NULL);
-
-                for(i=0; i<num_hosts; i++){
-                        if(servers[i].waiting<now_time && servers[i].num_responses<AVG_NUM){
-                                if(verbose && servers[i].waiting != 0) printf("re-");
-                                if(verbose) printf("sending request to peer %d\n", i);
-                                setup_request(&req[i]);
-                                write(socklist[i], &req[i], sizeof(ntp_message));
-                                servers[i].waiting=now_time;
-                                one_written=1;
-                                break;
-                        }
-                }
-
-                /* quickly poll for any sockets with pending data */
-                servers_readable=poll(ufds, num_hosts, 100);
-                if(servers_readable==-1){
-                        perror("polling ntp sockets");
-                        die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "communication errors");
-                }
-
-                /* read from any sockets with pending data */
-                for(i=0; servers_readable && i<num_hosts; i++){
-                        if(ufds[i].revents&POLLIN && servers[i].num_responses < AVG_NUM){
-                                if(verbose) {
-                                        printf("response from peer %d: ", i);
-                                }
+char *extract_value(const char *varlist, const char *name){
+        char *tmpvarlist=NULL, *tmpkey=NULL, *value=NULL;
+        int last=0;
 
-                                read(ufds[i].fd, &req[i], sizeof(ntp_message));
-                                gettimeofday(&recv_time, NULL);
-                                DBG(print_ntp_message(&req[i]));
-                                respnum=servers[i].num_responses++;
-                                servers[i].offset[respnum]=calc_offset(&req[i], &recv_time);
-                                if(verbose) {
-                                        printf("offset %.10g\n", servers[i].offset[respnum]);
-                                }
-                                servers[i].stratum=req[i].stratum;
-                                servers[i].rtdisp=NTP32asDOUBLE(req[i].rtdisp);
-                                servers[i].rtdelay=NTP32asDOUBLE(req[i].rtdelay);
-                                servers[i].waiting=0;
-                                servers[i].flags=req[i].flags;
-                                servers_readable--;
-                                one_read = 1;
-                                if(servers[i].num_responses==AVG_NUM) servers_completed++;
-                        }
-                }
-                /* lather, rinse, repeat. */
-        }
+        /* The following code require a non-empty varlist */
+        if(strlen(varlist) == 0)
+                return NULL;
 
-        if (one_read == 0) {
-                die(STATE_CRITICAL, "NTP CRITICAL: No response from NTP server\n");
-        }
+        tmpvarlist = strdup(varlist);
+        tmpkey = strtok(tmpvarlist, "=");
 
-        /* now, pick the best server from the list */
-        best_index=best_offset_server(servers, num_hosts);
-        if(best_index < 0){
-                *status=STATE_UNKNOWN;
-        } else {
-                /* finally, calculate the average offset */
-                for(i=0; i<servers[best_index].num_responses;i++){
-                        avg_offset+=servers[best_index].offset[j];
+        do {
+                if(strstr(tmpkey, name) != NULL) {
+                value = strtok(NULL, ",");
+                        last = 1;
                 }
-                avg_offset/=servers[best_index].num_responses;
-        }
+        } while (last == 0 && (tmpkey = strtok(NULL, "=")));
 
-        /* cleanup */
-        /* FIXME: Not closing the socket to avoid re-use of the local port
-         * which can cause old NTP packets to be read instead of NTP control
-         * pactets in jitter_request(). THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY...
-         * for(j=0; j<num_hosts; j++){ close(socklist[j]); } */
-        free(socklist);
-        free(ufds);
-        free(servers);
-        free(req);
-        freeaddrinfo(ai);
-
-        if(verbose) printf("overall average offset: %.10g\n", avg_offset);
-        return avg_offset;
+        return value;
 }
 
 void
@@ -511,20 +209,36 @@ setup_control_request(ntp_control_message *p, uint8_t opcode, uint16_t seq){
         /* Remaining fields are zero for requests */
 }
 
-/* XXX handle responses with the error bit set */
-double jitter_request(const char *host, int *status){
-        int conn=-1, i, npeers=0, num_candidates=0, syncsource_found=0;
-        int run=0, min_peer_sel=PEER_INCLUDED, num_selected=0, num_valid=0;
+/* This function does all the actual work; roughly here's what it does
+ * beside setting the offest, jitter and stratum passed as argument:
+ *  - offset can be negative, so if it cannot get the offset, offset_result
+ *    is set to UNKNOWN, otherwise OK.
+ *  - jitter and stratum are set to -1 if they cannot be retrieved so any
+ *    positive value means a success retrieving the value.
+ *  - status is set to WARNING if there's no sync.peer (otherwise OK) and is
+ *    the return value of the function.
+ *  status is pretty much useless as syncsource_found is a global variable
+ *  used later in main to check is the server was synchronized. It works
+ *  so I left it alone */
+int ntp_request(const char *host, double *offset, int *offset_result, double *jitter, int *stratum){
+        int conn=-1, i, npeers=0, num_candidates=0;
+        double tmp_offset = 0;
+        int min_peer_sel=PEER_INCLUDED;
         int peers_size=0, peer_offset=0;
+        int status;
         ntp_assoc_status_pair *peers=NULL;
         ntp_control_message req;
-        const char *getvar = "jitter";
-        double rval = 0.0, jitter = -1.0;
-        char *startofvalue=NULL, *nptr=NULL;
+        const char *getvar = "stratum,offset,jitter";
+        char *data, *value, *nptr;
         void *tmp;
 
+        status = STATE_OK;
+        *offset_result = STATE_UNKNOWN;
+        *jitter = *stratum = -1;
+
         /* Long-winded explanation:
-         * Getting the jitter requires a number of steps:
+         * Getting the sync peer offset, jitter and stratum requires a number of
+         * steps:
          * 1) Send a READSTAT request.
          * 2) Interpret the READSTAT reply
          *  a) The data section contains a list of peer identifiers (16 bits)
@@ -535,7 +249,8 @@ double jitter_request(const char *host, int *status){
          *     set a minimum of warning.
          * 3) Send a READVAR request for information on each peer identified
          *    in 2b greater than the minimum selection value.
-         * 4) Extract the jitter value from the data[] (it's ASCII)
+         * 4) Extract the offset, jitter and stratum value from the data[]
+         *    (it's ASCII)
          */
         my_udp_connect(server_address, 123, &conn);
 
@@ -564,7 +279,7 @@ double jitter_request(const char *host, int *status){
         } while(req.op&REM_MORE);
 
         /* first, let's find out if we have a sync source, or if there are
-         * at least some candidates.  in the case of the latter we'll issue
+         * at least some candidates. In the latter case we'll issue
          * a warning but go ahead with the check on them. */
         for (i = 0; i < npeers; i++){
                 if (PEER_SEL(peers[i].status) >= PEER_INCLUDED){
@@ -578,21 +293,22 @@ double jitter_request(const char *host, int *status){
         if(verbose) printf("%d candiate peers available\n", num_candidates);
         if(verbose && syncsource_found) printf("synchronization source found\n");
         if(! syncsource_found){
-                *status = STATE_UNKNOWN;
+                status = STATE_WARNING;
                 if(verbose) printf("warning: no synchronization source found\n");
         }
 
 
-        for (run=0; run<AVG_NUM; run++){
-                if(verbose) printf("jitter run %d of %d\n", run+1, AVG_NUM);
-                for (i = 0; i < npeers; i++){
-                        /* Only query this server if it is the current sync source */
-                        if (PEER_SEL(peers[i].status) >= min_peer_sel){
-                                num_selected++;
+        for (i = 0; i < npeers; i++){
+                /* Only query this server if it is the current sync source */
+                /* If there's no sync.peer, query all candidates and use the best one */
+                if (PEER_SEL(peers[i].status) >= min_peer_sel){
+                        if(verbose) printf("Getting offset, jitter and stratum for peer %.2x\n", ntohs(peers[i].assoc));
+                        asprintf(&data, "");
+                        do{
                                 setup_control_request(&req, OP_READVAR, 2);
                                 req.assoc = peers[i].assoc;
-                                /* By spec, putting the variable name "jitter"  in the request
-                                 * should cause the server to provide _only_ the jitter value.
+                                /* Putting the wanted variable names in the request
+                                 * cause the server to provide _only_ the requested values.
                                  * thus reducing net traffic, guaranteeing us only a single
                                  * datagram in reply, and making intepretation much simpler
                                  */
@@ -605,48 +321,97 @@ double jitter_request(const char *host, int *status){
                                 DBG(print_ntp_control_message(&req));
 
                                 req.count = htons(MAX_CM_SIZE);
-                                DBG(printf("recieving READVAR response...\n"));
+                                DBG(printf("receiving READVAR response...\n"));
                                 read(conn, &req, SIZEOF_NTPCM(req));
                                 DBG(print_ntp_control_message(&req));
 
-                                if(req.op&REM_ERROR && strstr(getvar, "jitter")) {
-                                        if(verbose) printf("The 'jitter' command failed (old ntp server?)\nRestarting with 'dispersion'...\n");
-                                        getvar = "dispersion";
-                                        num_selected--;
+                                if(!(req.op&REM_ERROR))
+                                        asprintf(&data, "%s%s", data, req.data);
+                        } while(req.op&REM_MORE);
+
+                        if(req.op&REM_ERROR) {
+                                if(strstr(getvar, "jitter")) {
+                                        if(verbose) printf("The command failed. This is usually caused by servers refusing the 'jitter'\nvariable. Restarting with 'dispersion'...\n");
+                                        getvar = "stratum,offset,dispersion";
+                                        i--;
+                                        continue;
+                                } else if(strlen(getvar)) {
+                                        if(verbose) printf("Server didn't like dispersion either; will retrieve everything\n");
+                                        getvar = "";
                                         i--;
                                         continue;
                                 }
+                        }
+
+                        if(verbose > 1)
+                                printf("Server responded: >>>%s<<<\n", data);
+
+                        /* get the offset */
+                        if(verbose)
+                                printf("parsing offset from peer %.2x: ", ntohs(peers[i].assoc));
+
+                        value = extract_value(data, "offset");
+                        nptr=NULL;
+                        /* Convert the value if we have one */
+                        if(value != NULL)
+                                tmp_offset = strtod(value, &nptr) / 1000;
+                        /* If value is null or no conversion was performed */
+                        if(value == NULL || value==nptr) {
+                                if(verbose) printf("error: unable to read server offset response.\n");
+                        } else {
+                                if(verbose) printf("%.10g\n", tmp_offset);
+                                if(*offset_result == STATE_UNKNOWN || fabs(tmp_offset) < fabs(*offset)) {
+                                        *offset = tmp_offset;
+                                        *offset_result = STATE_OK;
+                                } else {
+                                        /* Skip this one; move to the next */
+                                        continue;
+                                }
+                        }
 
-                                /* get to the float value */
+                        if(do_jitter) {
+                                /* get the jitter */
                                 if(verbose) {
-                                        printf("parsing jitter from peer %.2x: ", ntohs(peers[i].assoc));
+                                        printf("parsing %s from peer %.2x: ", strstr(getvar, "dispersion") != NULL ? "dispersion" : "jitter", ntohs(peers[i].assoc));
                                 }
-                                startofvalue = strchr(req.data, '=');
-                                if(startofvalue != NULL) {
-                                        startofvalue++;
-                                        jitter = strtod(startofvalue, &nptr);
+                                value = extract_value(data, strstr(getvar, "dispersion") != NULL ? "dispersion" : "jitter");
+                                nptr=NULL;
+                                /* Convert the value if we have one */
+                                if(value != NULL)
+                                        *jitter = strtod(value, &nptr);
+                                /* If value is null or no conversion was performed */
+                                if(value == NULL || value==nptr) {
+                                        if(verbose) printf("error: unable to read server jitter/dispersion response.\n");
+                                        *jitter = -1;
+                                } else if(verbose) {
+                                        printf("%.10g\n", *jitter);
+                                }
+                        }
+
+                        if(do_stratum) {
+                                /* get the stratum */
+                                if(verbose) {
+                                        printf("parsing stratum from peer %.2x: ", ntohs(peers[i].assoc));
                                 }
-                                if(startofvalue == NULL || startofvalue==nptr){
-                                        printf("warning: unable to read server jitter response.\n");
-                                        *status = STATE_UNKNOWN;
+                                value = extract_value(data, "stratum");
+                                nptr=NULL;
+                                /* Convert the value if we have one */
+                                if(value != NULL)
+                                        *stratum = strtol(value, &nptr, 10);
+                                if(value == NULL || value==nptr) {
+                                        if(verbose) printf("error: unable to read server stratum response.\n");
+                                        *stratum = -1;
                                 } else {
-                                        if(verbose) printf("%g\n", jitter);
-                                        num_valid++;
-                                        rval += jitter;
+                                        if(verbose) printf("%i\n", *stratum);
                                 }
                         }
-                }
-                if(verbose){
-                        printf("jitter parsed from %d/%d peers\n", num_valid, num_selected);
-                }
-        }
-
-        rval = num_valid ? rval / num_valid : -1.0;
+                } /* if (PEER_SEL(peers[i].status) >= min_peer_sel) */
+        } /* for (i = 0; i < npeers; i++) */
 
         close(conn);
         if(peers!=NULL) free(peers);
-        /* If we return -1.0, it means no synchronization source was found */
-        return rval;
+
+        return status;
 }
 
 int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
@@ -658,8 +423,11 @@ int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
                 {"verbose", no_argument, 0, 'v'},
                 {"use-ipv4", no_argument, 0, '4'},
                 {"use-ipv6", no_argument, 0, '6'},
+                {"quiet", no_argument, 0, 'q'},
                 {"warning", required_argument, 0, 'w'},
                 {"critical", required_argument, 0, 'c'},
+                {"swarn", required_argument, 0, 'W'},
+                {"scrit", required_argument, 0, 'C'},
                 {"jwarn", required_argument, 0, 'j'},
                 {"jcrit", required_argument, 0, 'k'},
                 {"timeout", required_argument, 0, 't'},
@@ -672,7 +440,7 @@ int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
                 usage ("\n");
 
         while (1) {
-                c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "Vhv46w:c:j:k:t:H:", longopts, &option);
+                c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "Vhv46qw:c:W:C:j:k:t:H:", longopts, &option);
                 if (c == -1 || c == EOF || c == 1)
                         break;
 
@@ -688,6 +456,9 @@ int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
                 case 'v':
                         verbose++;
                         break;
+                case 'q':
+                        quiet = 1;
+                        break;
                 case 'w':
                         do_offset=1;
                         owarn = optarg;
@@ -696,6 +467,14 @@ int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
                         do_offset=1;
                         ocrit = optarg;
                         break;
+                case 'W':
+                        do_stratum=1;
+                        swarn = optarg;
+                        break;
+                case 'C':
+                        do_stratum=1;
+                        scrit = optarg;
+                        break;
                 case 'j':
                         do_jitter=1;
                         jwarn = optarg;
@@ -746,24 +525,31 @@ char *perfd_offset (double offset)
 
 char *perfd_jitter (double jitter)
 {
-        return fperfdata ("jitter", jitter, "s",
+        return fperfdata ("jitter", jitter, "",
                 do_jitter, jitter_thresholds->warning->end,
                 do_jitter, jitter_thresholds->critical->end,
                 TRUE, 0, FALSE, 0);
 }
 
+char *perfd_stratum (int stratum)
+{
+        return perfdata ("stratum", stratum, "",
+                do_stratum, (int)stratum_thresholds->warning->end,
+                do_stratum, (int)stratum_thresholds->critical->end,
+                TRUE, 0, TRUE, 16);
+}
+
 int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
-        int result, offset_result, jitter_result;
+        int result, offset_result, stratum;
         double offset=0, jitter=0;
         char *result_line, *perfdata_line;
 
-        result = offset_result = jitter_result = STATE_OK;
-
         if (process_arguments (argc, argv) == ERROR)
                 usage4 (_("Could not parse arguments"));
 
         set_thresholds(&offset_thresholds, owarn, ocrit);
         set_thresholds(&jitter_thresholds, jwarn, jcrit);
+        set_thresholds(&stratum_thresholds, swarn, scrit);
 
         /* initialize alarm signal handling */
         signal (SIGALRM, socket_timeout_alarm_handler);
@@ -771,29 +557,24 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
         /* set socket timeout */
         alarm (socket_timeout);
 
-        offset = offset_request(server_address, &offset_result);
-        /* check_ntp used to always return CRITICAL if offset_result == STATE_UNKNOWN.
-         * Now we'll only do that is the offset thresholds were set */
-        if (do_offset && offset_result == STATE_UNKNOWN) {
-                result = STATE_CRITICAL;
+        /* This returns either OK or WARNING (See comment preceeding ntp_request) */
+        result = ntp_request(server_address, &offset, &offset_result, &jitter, &stratum);
+
+        if(offset_result == STATE_UNKNOWN) {
+                /* if there's no sync peer (this overrides ntp_request output): */
+                result = (quiet == 1 ? STATE_UNKNOWN : STATE_CRITICAL);
         } else {
-                result = get_status(fabs(offset), offset_thresholds);
+                /* Be quiet if there's no candidates either */
+                if (quiet == 1 && result == STATE_WARNING)
+                        result = STATE_UNKNOWN;
+                result = max_state_alt(result, get_status(fabs(offset), offset_thresholds));
         }
 
-        /* If not told to check the jitter, we don't even send packets.
-         * jitter is checked using NTP control packets, which not all
-         * servers recognize.  Trying to check the jitter on OpenNTPD
-         * (for example) will result in an error
-         */
-        if(do_jitter){
-                jitter=jitter_request(server_address, &jitter_result);
+        if(do_stratum)
+                result = max_state_alt(result, get_status(stratum, stratum_thresholds));
+
+        if(do_jitter)
                 result = max_state_alt(result, get_status(jitter, jitter_thresholds));
-                /* -1 indicates that we couldn't calculate the jitter
-                 * Only overrides STATE_OK from the offset */
-                if(jitter == -1.0 && result == STATE_OK)
-                        result = STATE_UNKNOWN;
-        }
-        result = max_state_alt(result, jitter_result);
 
         switch (result) {
                 case STATE_CRITICAL :
@@ -809,6 +590,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
                         asprintf(&result_line, "NTP UNKNOWN:");
                         break;
         }
+        if(!syncsource_found)
+                asprintf(&result_line, "%s %s,", result_line, _("Server not synchronized"));
+
         if(offset_result == STATE_UNKNOWN){
                 asprintf(&result_line, "%s %s", result_line, _("Offset unknown"));
                 asprintf(&perfdata_line, "");
@@ -818,7 +602,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
         }
         if (do_jitter) {
                 asprintf(&result_line, "%s, jitter=%f", result_line, jitter);
-                asprintf(&perfdata_line, "%s %s", perfdata_line,  perfd_jitter(jitter));
+                asprintf(&perfdata_line, "%s %s", perfdata_line, perfd_jitter(jitter));
+        }
+        if (do_stratum) {
+                asprintf(&result_line, "%s, stratum=%i", result_line, stratum);
+                asprintf(&perfdata_line, "%s %s", perfdata_line, perfd_stratum(stratum));
         }
         printf("%s|%s\n", result_line, perfdata_line);
 
@@ -833,18 +621,24 @@ void print_help(void){
 
         printf ("Copyright (c) 2006 Sean Finney\n");
         printf (COPYRIGHT, copyright, email);
-  
-  printf ("%s\n", _("This plugin checks the selected ntp server"));
 
-  printf ("\n\n");
-  
+        printf ("%s\n", _("This plugin checks the selected ntp server"));
+
+        printf ("\n\n");
+
         print_usage();
         printf (_(UT_HELP_VRSN));
         printf (_(UT_HOST_PORT), 'p', "123");
+        printf (" %s\n", "-q, --quiet");
+        printf ("    %s\n", _("Returns UNKNOWN instead of CRITICAL or WARNING if server isn't synchronized"));
         printf (" %s\n", "-w, --warning=THRESHOLD");
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Offset to result in warning status (seconds)"));
         printf (" %s\n", "-c, --critical=THRESHOLD");
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Offset to result in critical status (seconds)"));
+        printf (" %s\n", "-W, --warning=THRESHOLD");
+        printf ("    %s\n", _("Warning threshold for stratum"));
+        printf (" %s\n", "-W, --critical=THRESHOLD");
+        printf ("    %s\n", _("Critical threshold for stratum"));
         printf (" %s\n", "-j, --warning=THRESHOLD");
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Warning threshold for jitter"));
         printf (" %s\n", "-k, --critical=THRESHOLD");
@@ -854,17 +648,26 @@ void print_help(void){
 
         printf("\n");
         printf("%s\n", _("Notes:"));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("This plugin checks an NTP server independent of any commandline"));
+        printf(" %s\n\n", _("programs or external libraries."));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("Use this plugin to check the health of an NTP server. It supports"));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("checking the offset with the sync peer, the jitter and stratum. This"));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("plugin will not check the clock offset between the local host and NTP"));
+        printf(" %s\n\n", _("server; please use check_ntp_time for that purpose."));
+
         printf(" %s\n", _("See:"));
         printf(" %s\n", ("http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT"));
         printf(" %s\n", _("for THRESHOLD format and examples."));
 
         printf("\n");
         printf("%s\n", _("Examples:"));
-        printf(" %s\n", _("Normal offset check:"));
-        printf("  %s\n", ("./check_ntp -H ntpserv -w 0.5 -c 1"));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("Normal NTP server check:"));
+        printf("  %s\n", ("./check_ntp_peer -H ntpserv -w 0.5 -c 1"));
         printf(" %s\n", _("Check jitter too, avoiding critical notifications if jitter isn't available"));
         printf(" %s\n", _("(See Notes above for more details on thresholds formats):"));
-        printf("  %s\n", ("./check_ntp -H ntpserv -w 0.5 -c 1 -j -1:100 -k -1:200"));
+        printf("  %s\n", ("./check_ntp_peer -H ntpserv -w 0.5 -c 1 -j -1:100 -k -1:200"));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("Check only stratum:"));
+        printf("  %s\n", ("./check_ntp_peer -H ntpserv -W 4 -C 6"));
 
         printf (_(UT_SUPPORT));
 }
@@ -872,6 +675,7 @@ void print_help(void){
 void
 print_usage(void)
 {
-  printf (_("Usage:"));
-  printf(" %s -H <host> [-w <warn>] [-c <crit>] [-j <warn>] [-k <crit>] [-v verbose]\n", progname);
+        printf (_("Usage:"));
+        printf(" %s -H <host> [-w <warn>] [-c <crit>] [-W <warn>] [-C <crit>]\n", progname);
+        printf("       [-j <warn>] [-k <crit>] [-v verbose]\n");
 }
diff --git a/plugins/check_ntp_time.c b/plugins/check_ntp_time.c
index 164d519..22e78fb 100644
--- a/plugins/check_ntp_time.c
+++ b/plugins/check_ntp_time.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /******************************************************************************
 *
-* Nagios check_ntp plugin
+* Nagios check_ntp_time plugin
 *
 * License: GPL
 * Copyright (c) 2006 sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>
@@ -10,10 +10,14 @@
 *
 * Description:
 *
-* This file contains the check_ntp plugin
+* This file contains the check_ntp_time plugin
 *
-*  This plugin to check ntp servers independant of any commandline
-*  programs or external libraries.
+*  This plugin checks the clock offset between the local host and a
+*  remote NTP server. It is independent of any commandline programs or
+*  external libraries.
+*
+*  If you'd rather want to monitor an NTP server, please use
+*  check_ntp_peer.
 *
 *
 * License Information:
@@ -47,16 +51,12 @@ const char *email = "nagiosplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net";
 
 static char *server_address=NULL;
 static int verbose=0;
-static short do_offset=0;
+static int quiet=0;
 static char *owarn="60";
 static char *ocrit="120";
-static short do_jitter=0;
-static char *jwarn="5000";
-static char *jcrit="10000";
 
 int process_arguments (int, char **);
 thresholds *offset_thresholds = NULL;
-thresholds *jitter_thresholds = NULL;
 void print_help (void);
 void print_usage (void);
 
@@ -92,25 +92,6 @@ typedef struct {
         uint8_t flags;       /* byte with leapindicator,vers,mode. see macros */
 } ntp_server_results;
 
-/* this structure holds everything in an ntp control message as per rfc1305 */
-typedef struct {
-        uint8_t flags;       /* byte with leapindicator,vers,mode. see macros */
-        uint8_t op;          /* R,E,M bits and Opcode */
-        uint16_t seq;        /* Packet sequence */
-        uint16_t status;     /* Clock status */
-        uint16_t assoc;      /* Association */
-        uint16_t offset;     /* Similar to TCP sequence # */
-        uint16_t count;      /* # bytes of data */
-        char data[MAX_CM_SIZE]; /* ASCII data of the request */
-                                /* NB: not necessarily NULL terminated! */
-} ntp_control_message;
-
-/* this is an association/status-word pair found in control packet reponses */
-typedef struct {
-        uint16_t assoc;
-        uint16_t status;
-} ntp_assoc_status_pair;
-
 /* bits 1,2 are the leap indicator */
 #define LI_MASK 0xc0
 #define LI(x) ((x&LI_MASK)>>6)
@@ -246,42 +227,6 @@ void print_ntp_message(const ntp_message *p){
         printf("\ttxts = %-.16g\n", NTP64asDOUBLE(p->txts));
 }
 
-void print_ntp_control_message(const ntp_control_message *p){
-        int i=0, numpeers=0;
-        const ntp_assoc_status_pair *peer=NULL;
-
-        printf("control packet contents:\n");
-        printf("\tflags: 0x%.2x , 0x%.2x\n", p->flags, p->op);
-        printf("\t  li=%d (0x%.2x)\n", LI(p->flags), p->flags&LI_MASK);
-        printf("\t  vn=%d (0x%.2x)\n", VN(p->flags), p->flags&VN_MASK);
-        printf("\t  mode=%d (0x%.2x)\n", MODE(p->flags), p->flags&MODE_MASK);
-        printf("\t  response=%d (0x%.2x)\n", (p->op&REM_RESP)>0, p->op&REM_RESP);
-        printf("\t  more=%d (0x%.2x)\n", (p->op&REM_MORE)>0, p->op&REM_MORE);
-        printf("\t  error=%d (0x%.2x)\n", (p->op&REM_ERROR)>0, p->op&REM_ERROR);
-        printf("\t  op=%d (0x%.2x)\n", p->op&OP_MASK, p->op&OP_MASK);
-        printf("\tsequence: %d (0x%.2x)\n", ntohs(p->seq), ntohs(p->seq));
-        printf("\tstatus: %d (0x%.2x)\n", ntohs(p->status), ntohs(p->status));
-        printf("\tassoc: %d (0x%.2x)\n", ntohs(p->assoc), ntohs(p->assoc));
-        printf("\toffset: %d (0x%.2x)\n", ntohs(p->offset), ntohs(p->offset));
-        printf("\tcount: %d (0x%.2x)\n", ntohs(p->count), ntohs(p->count));
-        numpeers=ntohs(p->count)/(sizeof(ntp_assoc_status_pair));
-        if(p->op&REM_RESP && p->op&OP_READSTAT){
-                peer=(ntp_assoc_status_pair*)p->data;
-                for(i=0;i<numpeers;i++){
-                        printf("\tpeer id %.2x status %.2x", 
-                               ntohs(peer[i].assoc), ntohs(peer[i].status));
-                        if (PEER_SEL(peer[i].status) >= PEER_INCLUDED){
-                                if(PEER_SEL(peer[i].status) >= PEER_SYNCSOURCE){
-                                        printf(" <-- current sync source");
-                                } else {
-                                        printf(" <-- current sync candidate");
-                                }
-                        }
-                        printf("\n");
-                }
-        }
-}
-
 void setup_request(ntp_message *p){
         struct timeval t;
 
@@ -411,13 +356,13 @@ double offset_request(const char *host, int *status){
                 ai_tmp = ai_tmp->ai_next;
         }
 
-        /* now do AVG_NUM checks to each host.  we stop before timeout/2 seconds
+        /* now do AVG_NUM checks to each host. We stop before timeout/2 seconds
          * have passed in order to ensure post-processing and jitter time. */
         now_time=start_ts=time(NULL);
         while(servers_completed<num_hosts && now_time-start_ts <= socket_timeout/2){
                 /* loop through each server and find each one which hasn't
                  * been touched in the past second or so and is still lacking
-                 * some responses.  for each of these servers, send a new request,
+                 * some responses. For each of these servers, send a new request,
                  * and update the "waiting" timestamp with the current time. */
                 one_written=0;
                 now_time=time(NULL);
@@ -486,10 +431,7 @@ double offset_request(const char *host, int *status){
         }
 
         /* cleanup */
-        /* FIXME: Not closing the socket to avoid re-use of the local port
-         * which can cause old NTP packets to be read instead of NTP control
-         * pactets in jitter_request(). THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY...
-         * for(j=0; j<num_hosts; j++){ close(socklist[j]); } */
+        for(j=0; j<num_hosts; j++){ close(socklist[j]); }
         free(socklist);
         free(ufds);
         free(servers);
@@ -500,155 +442,6 @@ double offset_request(const char *host, int *status){
         return avg_offset;
 }
 
-void
-setup_control_request(ntp_control_message *p, uint8_t opcode, uint16_t seq){
-        memset(p, 0, sizeof(ntp_control_message));
-        LI_SET(p->flags, LI_NOWARNING);
-        VN_SET(p->flags, VN_RESERVED);
-        MODE_SET(p->flags, MODE_CONTROLMSG);
-        OP_SET(p->op, opcode);
-        p->seq = htons(seq);
-        /* Remaining fields are zero for requests */
-}
-
-/* XXX handle responses with the error bit set */
-double jitter_request(const char *host, int *status){
-        int conn=-1, i, npeers=0, num_candidates=0, syncsource_found=0;
-        int run=0, min_peer_sel=PEER_INCLUDED, num_selected=0, num_valid=0;
-        int peers_size=0, peer_offset=0;
-        ntp_assoc_status_pair *peers=NULL;
-        ntp_control_message req;
-        const char *getvar = "jitter";
-        double rval = 0.0, jitter = -1.0;
-        char *startofvalue=NULL, *nptr=NULL;
-        void *tmp;
-
-        /* Long-winded explanation:
-         * Getting the jitter requires a number of steps:
-         * 1) Send a READSTAT request.
-         * 2) Interpret the READSTAT reply
-         *  a) The data section contains a list of peer identifiers (16 bits)
-         *     and associated status words (16 bits)
-         *  b) We want the value of 0x06 in the SEL (peer selection) value,
-         *     which means "current synchronizatin source".  If that's missing,
-         *     we take anything better than 0x04 (see the rfc for details) but
-         *     set a minimum of warning.
-         * 3) Send a READVAR request for information on each peer identified
-         *    in 2b greater than the minimum selection value.
-         * 4) Extract the jitter value from the data[] (it's ASCII)
-         */
-        my_udp_connect(server_address, 123, &conn);
-
-        /* keep sending requests until the server stops setting the
-         * REM_MORE bit, though usually this is only 1 packet. */
-        do{
-                setup_control_request(&req, OP_READSTAT, 1);
-                DBG(printf("sending READSTAT request"));
-                write(conn, &req, SIZEOF_NTPCM(req));
-                DBG(print_ntp_control_message(&req));
-                /* Attempt to read the largest size packet possible */
-                req.count=htons(MAX_CM_SIZE);
-                DBG(printf("recieving READSTAT response"))
-                read(conn, &req, SIZEOF_NTPCM(req));
-                DBG(print_ntp_control_message(&req));
-                /* Each peer identifier is 4 bytes in the data section, which
-                 * we represent as a ntp_assoc_status_pair datatype.
-                 */
-                peers_size+=ntohs(req.count);
-                if((tmp=realloc(peers, peers_size)) == NULL)
-                        free(peers), die(STATE_UNKNOWN, "can not (re)allocate 'peers' buffer\n");
-                peers=tmp;
-                memcpy((void*)((ptrdiff_t)peers+peer_offset), (void*)req.data, ntohs(req.count));
-                npeers=peers_size/sizeof(ntp_assoc_status_pair);
-                peer_offset+=ntohs(req.count);
-        } while(req.op&REM_MORE);
-
-        /* first, let's find out if we have a sync source, or if there are
-         * at least some candidates.  in the case of the latter we'll issue
-         * a warning but go ahead with the check on them. */
-        for (i = 0; i < npeers; i++){
-                if (PEER_SEL(peers[i].status) >= PEER_INCLUDED){
-                        num_candidates++;
-                        if(PEER_SEL(peers[i].status) >= PEER_SYNCSOURCE){
-                                syncsource_found=1;
-                                min_peer_sel=PEER_SYNCSOURCE;
-                        }
-                }
-        }
-        if(verbose) printf("%d candiate peers available\n", num_candidates);
-        if(verbose && syncsource_found) printf("synchronization source found\n");
-        if(! syncsource_found){
-                *status = STATE_UNKNOWN;
-                if(verbose) printf("warning: no synchronization source found\n");
-        }
-
-
-        for (run=0; run<AVG_NUM; run++){
-                if(verbose) printf("jitter run %d of %d\n", run+1, AVG_NUM);
-                for (i = 0; i < npeers; i++){
-                        /* Only query this server if it is the current sync source */
-                        if (PEER_SEL(peers[i].status) >= min_peer_sel){
-                                num_selected++;
-                                setup_control_request(&req, OP_READVAR, 2);
-                                req.assoc = peers[i].assoc;
-                                /* By spec, putting the variable name "jitter"  in the request
-                                 * should cause the server to provide _only_ the jitter value.
-                                 * thus reducing net traffic, guaranteeing us only a single
-                                 * datagram in reply, and making intepretation much simpler
-                                 */
-                                /* Older servers doesn't know what jitter is, so if we get an
-                                 * error on the first pass we redo it with "dispersion" */
-                                strncpy(req.data, getvar, MAX_CM_SIZE-1);
-                                req.count = htons(strlen(getvar));
-                                DBG(printf("sending READVAR request...\n"));
-                                write(conn, &req, SIZEOF_NTPCM(req));
-                                DBG(print_ntp_control_message(&req));
-
-                                req.count = htons(MAX_CM_SIZE);
-                                DBG(printf("recieving READVAR response...\n"));
-                                read(conn, &req, SIZEOF_NTPCM(req));
-                                DBG(print_ntp_control_message(&req));
-
-                                if(req.op&REM_ERROR && strstr(getvar, "jitter")) {
-                                        if(verbose) printf("The 'jitter' command failed (old ntp server?)\nRestarting with 'dispersion'...\n");
-                                        getvar = "dispersion";
-                                        num_selected--;
-                                        i--;
-                                        continue;
-                                }
-
-                                /* get to the float value */
-                                if(verbose) {
-                                        printf("parsing jitter from peer %.2x: ", ntohs(peers[i].assoc));
-                                }
-                                startofvalue = strchr(req.data, '=');
-                                if(startofvalue != NULL) {
-                                        startofvalue++;
-                                        jitter = strtod(startofvalue, &nptr);
-                                }
-                                if(startofvalue == NULL || startofvalue==nptr){
-                                        printf("warning: unable to read server jitter response.\n");
-                                        *status = STATE_UNKNOWN;
-                                } else {
-                                        if(verbose) printf("%g\n", jitter);
-                                        num_valid++;
-                                        rval += jitter;
-                                }
-                        }
-                }
-                if(verbose){
-                        printf("jitter parsed from %d/%d peers\n", num_valid, num_selected);
-                }
-        }
-
-        rval = num_valid ? rval / num_valid : -1.0;
-
-        close(conn);
-        if(peers!=NULL) free(peers);
-        /* If we return -1.0, it means no synchronization source was found */
-        return rval;
-}
-
 int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
         int c;
         int option=0;
@@ -658,10 +451,9 @@ int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
                 {"verbose", no_argument, 0, 'v'},
                 {"use-ipv4", no_argument, 0, '4'},
                 {"use-ipv6", no_argument, 0, '6'},
+                {"quiet", no_argument, 0, 'q'},
                 {"warning", required_argument, 0, 'w'},
                 {"critical", required_argument, 0, 'c'},
-                {"jwarn", required_argument, 0, 'j'},
-                {"jcrit", required_argument, 0, 'k'},
                 {"timeout", required_argument, 0, 't'},
                 {"hostname", required_argument, 0, 'H'},
                 {0, 0, 0, 0}
@@ -672,7 +464,7 @@ int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
                 usage ("\n");
 
         while (1) {
-                c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "Vhv46w:c:j:k:t:H:", longopts, &option);
+                c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "Vhv46qw:c:t:H:", longopts, &option);
                 if (c == -1 || c == EOF || c == 1)
                         break;
 
@@ -688,22 +480,15 @@ int process_arguments(int argc, char **argv){
                 case 'v':
                         verbose++;
                         break;
+                case 'q':
+                        quiet = 1;
+                        break;
                 case 'w':
-                        do_offset=1;
                         owarn = optarg;
                         break;
                 case 'c':
-                        do_offset=1;
                         ocrit = optarg;
                         break;
-                case 'j':
-                        do_jitter=1;
-                        jwarn = optarg;
-                        break;
-                case 'k':
-                        do_jitter=1;
-                        jcrit = optarg;
-                        break;
                 case 'H':
                         if(is_host(optarg) == FALSE)
                                 usage2(_("Invalid hostname/address"), optarg);
@@ -744,26 +529,17 @@ char *perfd_offset (double offset)
                 FALSE, 0, FALSE, 0);
 }
 
-char *perfd_jitter (double jitter)
-{
-        return fperfdata ("jitter", jitter, "s",
-                do_jitter, jitter_thresholds->warning->end,
-                do_jitter, jitter_thresholds->critical->end,
-                TRUE, 0, FALSE, 0);
-}
-
 int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
-        int result, offset_result, jitter_result;
-        double offset=0, jitter=0;
+        int result, offset_result;
+        double offset=0;
         char *result_line, *perfdata_line;
 
-        result = offset_result = jitter_result = STATE_OK;
+        result = offset_result = STATE_OK;
 
         if (process_arguments (argc, argv) == ERROR)
                 usage4 (_("Could not parse arguments"));
 
         set_thresholds(&offset_thresholds, owarn, ocrit);
-        set_thresholds(&jitter_thresholds, jwarn, jcrit);
 
         /* initialize alarm signal handling */
         signal (SIGALRM, socket_timeout_alarm_handler);
@@ -772,29 +548,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
         alarm (socket_timeout);
 
         offset = offset_request(server_address, &offset_result);
-        /* check_ntp used to always return CRITICAL if offset_result == STATE_UNKNOWN.
-         * Now we'll only do that is the offset thresholds were set */
-        if (do_offset && offset_result == STATE_UNKNOWN) {
-                result = STATE_CRITICAL;
+        if (offset_result == STATE_UNKNOWN) {
+                result = (quiet == 1 ? STATE_UNKNOWN : STATE_CRITICAL);
         } else {
                 result = get_status(fabs(offset), offset_thresholds);
         }
 
-        /* If not told to check the jitter, we don't even send packets.
-         * jitter is checked using NTP control packets, which not all
-         * servers recognize.  Trying to check the jitter on OpenNTPD
-         * (for example) will result in an error
-         */
-        if(do_jitter){
-                jitter=jitter_request(server_address, &jitter_result);
-                result = max_state_alt(result, get_status(jitter, jitter_thresholds));
-                /* -1 indicates that we couldn't calculate the jitter
-                 * Only overrides STATE_OK from the offset */
-                if(jitter == -1.0 && result == STATE_OK)
-                        result = STATE_UNKNOWN;
-        }
-        result = max_state_alt(result, jitter_result);
-
         switch (result) {
                 case STATE_CRITICAL :
                         asprintf(&result_line, "NTP CRITICAL:");
@@ -816,55 +575,49 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
                 asprintf(&result_line, "%s Offset %.10g secs", result_line, offset);
                 asprintf(&perfdata_line, "%s", perfd_offset(offset));
         }
-        if (do_jitter) {
-                asprintf(&result_line, "%s, jitter=%f", result_line, jitter);
-                asprintf(&perfdata_line, "%s %s", perfdata_line,  perfd_jitter(jitter));
-        }
         printf("%s|%s\n", result_line, perfdata_line);
 
         if(server_address!=NULL) free(server_address);
         return result;
 }
 
-
-
 void print_help(void){
         print_revision(progname, revision);
 
         printf ("Copyright (c) 2006 Sean Finney\n");
         printf (COPYRIGHT, copyright, email);
-  
-  printf ("%s\n", _("This plugin checks the selected ntp server"));
 
-  printf ("\n\n");
-  
+        printf ("%s\n", _("This plugin checks the clock offset with the ntp server"));
+
+        printf ("\n\n");
+
         print_usage();
         printf (_(UT_HELP_VRSN));
         printf (_(UT_HOST_PORT), 'p', "123");
+        printf (" %s\n", "-q, --quiet");
+        printf ("    %s\n", _("Returns UNKNOWN instead of CRITICAL if offset cannot be found"));
         printf (" %s\n", "-w, --warning=THRESHOLD");
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Offset to result in warning status (seconds)"));
         printf (" %s\n", "-c, --critical=THRESHOLD");
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Offset to result in critical status (seconds)"));
-        printf (" %s\n", "-j, --warning=THRESHOLD");
-        printf ("    %s\n", _("Warning threshold for jitter"));
-        printf (" %s\n", "-k, --critical=THRESHOLD");
-        printf ("    %s\n", _("Critical threshold for jitter"));
         printf (_(UT_TIMEOUT), DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT);
         printf (_(UT_VERBOSE));
 
         printf("\n");
         printf("%s\n", _("Notes:"));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("This plugin checks the clock offset between the local host and a"));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("remote NTP server. It is independent of any commandline programs or"));
+        printf(" %s\n\n", _("external libraries."));
+        printf(" %s\n", _("If you'd rather want to monitor an NTP server, please use"));
+        printf(" %s\n\n", _("check_ntp_peer."));
+
         printf(" %s\n", _("See:"));
         printf(" %s\n", ("http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT"));
         printf(" %s\n", _("for THRESHOLD format and examples."));
 
         printf("\n");
         printf("%s\n", _("Examples:"));
-        printf(" %s\n", _("Normal offset check:"));
-        printf("  %s\n", ("./check_ntp -H ntpserv -w 0.5 -c 1"));
-        printf(" %s\n", _("Check jitter too, avoiding critical notifications if jitter isn't available"));
-        printf(" %s\n", _("(See Notes above for more details on thresholds formats):"));
-        printf("  %s\n", ("./check_ntp -H ntpserv -w 0.5 -c 1 -j -1:100 -k -1:200"));
+        printf("  %s\n", ("./check_ntp_time -H ntpserv -w 0.5 -c 1"));
 
         printf (_(UT_SUPPORT));
 }
@@ -872,6 +625,8 @@ void print_help(void){
 void
 print_usage(void)
 {
-  printf (_("Usage:"));
-  printf(" %s -H <host> [-w <warn>] [-c <crit>] [-j <warn>] [-k <crit>] [-v verbose]\n", progname);
+        printf (_("Usage:"));
+        printf(" %s -H <host> [-w <warn>] [-c <crit>] [-W <warn>] [-C <crit>]\n", progname);
+        printf("       [-j <warn>] [-k <crit>] [-v verbose]\n");
 }
+
diff --git a/plugins/t/check_ntp.t b/plugins/t/check_ntp.t
index 6e222a3..ae7f036 100644
--- a/plugins/t/check_ntp.t
+++ b/plugins/t/check_ntp.t
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ use strict;
 use Test::More;
 use NPTest;
 
-plan tests => 4;
+my @PLUGINS1 = ('check_ntp', 'check_ntp_peer', 'check_ntp_time');
+my @PLUGINS2 = ('check_ntp_peer');
+
+plan tests => (12 * scalar(@PLUGINS1)) + (6 * scalar(@PLUGINS2));
 
 my $res;
 
@@ -25,33 +28,84 @@ my $host_nonresponsive = getTestParameter( "NP_HOST_NONRESPONSIVE",
                 "The hostname of system not responsive to network requests",
                 "10.0.0.1" );
 
-my $hostname_invalid   = getTestParameter( "NP_HOSTNAME_INVALID", 
+my $hostname_invalid = getTestParameter( "NP_HOSTNAME_INVALID", 
                 "An invalid (not known to DNS) hostname",  
                 "nosuchhost");
 
-SKIP: {
-        skip "No NTP server defined", 1 unless $ntp_service;
+my $ntp_okmatch1 = '/^NTP\sOK:\sOffset\s-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(e-[0-9]{2})?\ssecs/';
+my $ntp_warnmatch1 = '/^NTP\sWARNING:\sOffset\s-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(e-[0-9]{2})?\ssecs/';
+my $ntp_critmatch1 = '/^NTP\sCRITICAL:\sOffset\s-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(e-[0-9]{2})?\ssecs/';
+my $ntp_okmatch2 = '/^NTP\sOK:\sOffset\s-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(e-[0-9]{2})?\ssecs,\sjitter=[0-9]+\.[0-9]+,\sstratum=[0-9]{1,2}/';
+my $ntp_warnmatch2 = '/^NTP\sWARNING:\sOffset\s-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(e-[0-9]{2})?\ssecs,\sjitter=[0-9]+\.[0-9]+,\sstratum=[0-9]{1,2}/';
+my $ntp_critmatch2 = '/^NTP\sCRITICAL:\sOffset\s-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?(e-[0-9]{2})?\ssecs,\sjitter=[0-9]+\.[0-9]+,\sstratum=[0-9]{1,2}/';
+my $ntp_noresponse = '/^(CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 3 seconds)|(NTP CRITICAL: No response from NTP server)$/';
+my $ntp_nosuchhost = '/^check_ntp.*: Invalid hostname/address - ' . $hostname_invalid . '/';
+
+
+foreach my $plugin (@PLUGINS1) {
+        SKIP: {
+                skip "No NTP server defined", 1 unless $ntp_service;
+                $res = NPTest->testCmd(
+                        "./$plugin -H $ntp_service -w 1000 -c 2000"
+                        );
+                cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 0, "$plugin: Good NTP result (simple check)" );
+                like( $res->output, $ntp_okmatch1, "$plugin: Output match OK (simple check)" );
+
+                $res = NPTest->testCmd(
+                        "./$plugin -H $ntp_service -w 1000: -c 2000"
+                        );
+                cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 1, "$plugin: Warning NTP result (simple check)" );
+                like( $res->output, $ntp_warnmatch1, "$plugin: Output match WARNING (simple check)" );
+
+                $res = NPTest->testCmd(
+                        "./$plugin -H $ntp_service -w 1000 -c 2000:"
+                        );
+                cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 2, "$plugin: Critical NTP result (simple check)" );
+                like( $res->output, $ntp_critmatch1, "$plugin: Output match CRITICAL (simple check)" );
+        }
+
+        SKIP: {
+                skip "No bad NTP server defined", 1 unless $no_ntp_service;
+                $res = NPTest->testCmd(
+                        "./$plugin -H $no_ntp_service -t 3"
+                        );
+                cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 2, "$plugin: No NTP service" );
+                like( $res->output, $ntp_noresponse, "$plugin: Output match no NTP service" );
+        }
+
         $res = NPTest->testCmd(
-                "./check_ntp -H $ntp_service"
+                "./$plugin -H $host_nonresponsive -t 3"
                 );
-        cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 0, "Got good NTP result");
-}
+        cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 2, "$plugin: Server not responding" );
+        like( $res->output, $ntp_noresponse, "$plugin: Output match non-responsive" );
 
-SKIP: {
-        skip "No bad NTP server defined", 1 unless $no_ntp_service;
         $res = NPTest->testCmd(
-                "./check_ntp -H $no_ntp_service"
+                "./$plugin -H $hostname_invalid"
                 );
-        cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 2, "Got bad NTP result");
+        cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 3, "$plugin: Invalid hostname/address" );
+        like( $res->output, $ntp_nosuchhost, "$plugin: Output match invalid hostname/address" );
+
 }
 
-$res = NPTest->testCmd(
-        "./check_ntp -H $host_nonresponsive"
-        );
-cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 2, "Got critical if server not responding");
+foreach my $plugin (@PLUGINS2) {
+        SKIP: {
+                skip "No NTP server defined", 1 unless $ntp_service;
+                $res = NPTest->testCmd(
+                        "./$plugin -H $ntp_service -w 1000 -c 2000 -W 20 -C 21 -j 100000 -k 200000"
+                        );
+                cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 0, "$plugin: Good NTP result with jitter and stratum check" );
+                like( $res->output, $ntp_okmatch2, "$plugin: Output match OK with jitter and stratum" );
 
-$res = NPTest->testCmd(
-        "./check_ntp -H $hostname_invalid"
-        );
-cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 3, "Got critical if server hostname invalid");
+                $res = NPTest->testCmd(
+                        "./$plugin -H $ntp_service -w 1000 -c 2000 -W ~:-1 -C 21 -j 100000 -k 200000"
+                        );
+                cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 1, "$plugin: Warning NTP result with jitter and stratum check" );
+                like( $res->output, $ntp_warnmatch2, "$plugin: Output match WARNING with jitter and stratum" );
 
+                $res = NPTest->testCmd(
+                        "./$plugin -H $ntp_service -w 1000 -c 2000 -W 20 -C 21 -j 100000 -k ~:-1"
+                        );
+                cmp_ok( $res->return_code, '==', 2, "$plugin: Critical NTP result with jitter and stratum check" );
+                like( $res->output, $ntp_critmatch2, "$plugin: Output match CRITICAL with jitter and stratum" );
+        }
+}