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CLOCK and CPU test

list Ryan Novosielski
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:21:40 -0400
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On 09/25/2013 04:16 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
On Wed, September 25, 2013 12:35 pm, Novosielski, Ryan wrote:
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Hi all,

I suspect I know the answer to this but want to check:

I'm running Xymon 4.3.12. My manager has recently brought up the need to have the clock drift monitored (it caused problems with
a DB server when there was massive drift once for some reason).
I looked into how to do this and it looks like the highest level that clock drift can cause Xymon to alert at is yellow. This means that if I wanted to be alerted, I'd have to also get alerted for yellow CPU on that machine, right? So far my only idea is to raise the yellow level for CPU. I don't really want
to bother with an external test.

Any tips?
According to http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man5/analysis.cfg.5.html you should be able to add a line like

CLOCK 15 red

... to an analysis.cfg file (or *.d/ entry) to have it go red if the clock delta exceeds that absolute value. I have to admit not having tested that ever though.

If that doesn't work, you might be able to simulate it (or assign the color to a different test entirely) with a DS entry; something like:

DS cpu clock.rrd:la <-15 COLOR=red "TEXT=System clock is &V
seconds off" DS cpu clock.rrd:la >15 COLOR=red "TEXT=System clock
is &V seconds off"
Wonderful! I must have been reading an old copy of that documentation
(Google'd for it instead of using what was on the system). Thanks Japheth!

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