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by wzinet
Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:14 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart
Replies: 7
Views: 12054

Re: check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart

Many thanks. The issue seems to be that I'm running within a 'virtual box' virtual machine. Sometimes (and I don't understand the reason yet), there is a massive jitter in the RTC that is provided to the virtual machine (easy enough to see some possibilities, but nothing concrete). There are some no...
by wzinet
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:20 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart
Replies: 7
Views: 12054

Re: check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart

So after a lot more digging, it seems that the NTP daemon on my host was not syncing, and so the problem is with ntp, not with the check_ntp_time script. There appears to be a problem with the initial setting of the date (I'm running ubuntu 12.04 on this machine), and then it doesn't sync for some t...
by wzinet
Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:20 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart
Replies: 7
Views: 12054

Re: check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart

Some of the failing servers are using 1.4.16, so I don't think upgrading the other clients will help. The timezone is correct (and the same on all machines), so I don't think it's that. after a further restart of ntp, it appears that I'm getting the following: ./check_ntp_time -v -H localhost sendin...
by wzinet
Mon Jun 17, 2013 4:56 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart
Replies: 7
Views: 12054

check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart

Hi, I've a strange issue, that I can't seem to find any links to on the web :( I'm running nagios 3.4.1 on a VM (virtual box), under Ubuntu 12.04. it's been up and running fine for the last 9 months (approx), and I've only seen real issues come out of it. The machine recently suffered a disk issue (...