Hack for monitoring NTP servers

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Fri Apr 12 19:12:41 UTC 2024


On 2024-04-11 14:39, Hal Murray via devel wrote:
> If somebody feels like hacking, something like this should be fun.
> 
> The idea is to setup a ntpd server watching the servers you want to monitor.
> (noselect on the server line does that)
> 
> The new code is a program that watches that server to see if the servers to be
> monitored are responding correctly and sends you email if they aren't.

I think you're looking for this (plus some monitoring program like 
Nagios, Icinga, etc.):
https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/man/check_ntp_peer.html

-- 
Richard



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