NTP stats - who can make something, with this info?

[evert]

Hi everyone!

Any guru's here with spare time?

Is it possible to plot NTP stats? I found a RRD example on http://fortytwo.ch/stats/time/zbasel.fortytwo.ch/ but I have no idea on how to implement it in Cacti...

[pvd]

this is a script I use for the same sort of thing

[root@perch scripts]# cat ntp.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

# ntpq -rv generates
#offset=-11.331, frequency=57.178, jitter=2.634, stability=0.351

$output = `ntpq -c rv | grep "^offset"` ;
$output =~ m/offset=(.*), frequency=(.*), jitter=(.*), stability=(.*)/;

print "offset:$1 frequency:$2 jitter:$3 stability:$4" ;

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It generates 4 values

offset time offset from "reality"
frequency my clock frequency
jitter the jitter of the clock
stability rtfm

In reality you may well just want to plot offset, so if this is the case, just change the print to

print "offset:$1 ;

then set up your data source to use a unix script.

One day Ill get my cacti working properly and export the config, but not today...

Phil

[kirigoe]

I'm getting some weird graphs from this script on a linux box running NTP 4.2.0, the graph is broken up as if the script failed to get the offset. has anyone else experienced this?

[pvd]

Sadly yes I am getting that as well, it used to work with my last cacti install, I haven't got time right now, but if noone else fixes it, Ill investigate it and see if I can fix it in a few days.

Phil

[pvd]

I have written a somewhat better script. So I suggest you try that one.

There is another post on the board in general help "returning -ve numbers from script command" about a fix for reading -ve numbers from scripts. Its just a couple of lines to edit in a file. If you are plotting offset, then you will need that fix as well, as the 0.8.6b by default does not do -ve numbers out of the box.

Let me know if that does not help. I will see what I can do

Phil