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cbenton210_2064
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Aug 11, 2016

NTP Health Monitor on V12

Does anyone know a way to setup a Valid NTP health monitor on V12. I have a virtual server setup with 3 Local NTP servers in a pool. Would like to know that there are actually serving time as appose...
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Patrick_Mullane
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Sep 01, 2016

We are unable to use the ntpdate command in an external monitor because the ntpd service is running. F5 support recommends using the ntpq command to check status, but I have not been able to figure out how to do that. Has anyone had any luck?

 

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    mimlo_61970
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    Sep 06, 2016

    ntpdate -q will run even if ntpd is running. The -q is for query only, and will not try to modify the clock.