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- Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:14 am
- Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
- Topic: check_ntp_time fails for first hour after restart
- Replies: 7
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 (...