Need More Documentation on check_ntp_peer monitoring plugin.

Stuart Henderson stu.lists at spacehopper.org
Fri May 26 15:52:53 CEST 2023


On 2023-05-25, Shakunj Jain <shakunj at optumsoft.com> wrote:
> Could you please help me understand the check_ntp_peer monitoring plugin.
> I am using the plugin as per the documentation
> https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/man/check_ntp_peer.html but I am
> unable to get expected results and everytime it throws me an error message
> as below.

It's for checking an ntp server which you are a "peer" of.

If you are just a standard downstream user of a server (i.e. if
you're using ntpd, you would use "server" not "peer" to connect)
you probably want check_ntp_time instead.




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