that works fine:

$ ~>/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ntp_time  -H ntp1
NTP OK: Offset 0.0008395434124 secs|offset=0.000840s; 
60.000000;120.000000;

but, I'm trying to verifty the NTP server's health, not that my  
monitoring host is sync'd to it.

"Notes:
  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."


but that doesn't work (for me) :

$ ~>/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ntp_peer -H ntp1 -t 3
CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 3 seconds



/Pete



On 8 May 2008, at 1:55 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:

quoted text
> On 2008-05-08, Pete Vickers <pete@systemnet.no> wrote:
>> Has anybody gotten Nagois' check_ntp_* to play nicely with a remote
>> openntp service ? It appears to  rely upon services not implemented
>> in openntp ?
>
> this is against an OpenNTP server;
>
> <sthen@box2-hex:12>$ /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ntp_time -H ntp
> NTP OK: Offset -0.002711469308 secs|offset=-0.002711s; 
> 60.000000;120.000000;
>
> so, it can work.