[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#865403: Bug#865403: monitoring-plugins-basic: check_ntp fails with stretch version of ntpd

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 2017-06-21 08:42, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Bas Couwenberg wrote...
> 
>> On 2017-06-21 08:18, Christoph Biedl wrote:
>> >  LANG=C /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp -4 -H $server -w 0.5 -c 0.8
>> 
>> check_ntp has been deprecated for many years now, you should be using
>> check_ntp_time & check_ntp_peer instead.
>> 
>> Does the issue also occur with those?
> 
> Quick check, just replacing check_ntp with one these:
> 
> * check_ntp_peer sends a NTPv2 package, no reply from the server.
> * check_ntp_time: Same as with check_ntp, works with a jessie ntpd,
>   fails with a stretch ntpd.

This is from a stretch system:

  $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp_peer -H localhost -v
  3 candidate peers available
  synchronization source found
  Getting offset, jitter and stratum for peer d53
  parsing offset from peer d53: 0.000473
  NTP OK: Offset 0.000473 secs|offset=0.000473s;60.000000;120.000000;

Does your /etc/ntp.conf include the IP for your monitoring system to 
allow it to interrogate the ntp server more closely?

Kind Regards,

Bas