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Re:Clock Skew Exists by devnull42 on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @03:52PM (#11075883)
I run some pretty large NTP deployments and our NTP drift is never really over 1 second. Now the difference between NTP serverside drift and client server-side "skew" isn’t something I have looks at but for the most part I get a nagios alert on anything over 1 second of drift with 5 seconds being the most I have ever seen.
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Re:Clock Skew Exists by newman314 on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @05:43PM (#11076764)
Can you share more detail as to how you would alert on drift? What acts as the canonical source?
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Re:Clock Skew Exists by simcop2387 on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @05:56PM (#11076864)
Not sure how you'd configure it, but you don't actually need a canonical source. You just compare it against all/many other servers and look at the difference. If there's any real skew you need to look at all of them that had a difference then but you don't need a canonical source anymore.
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