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ntp_mon(5)							    ntp_mon(5)

NAME
       ntp_mon - Monitoring Options

INTRODUCTION
       The  ntpd  includes  a comprehensive monitoring facility which collects
       statistical data of various types and writes the data to files  associ‐
       ated  with  each type at defined events or intervals. The files associ‐
       ated with a particular type are collectively called the generation file
       set  for	 that  type. The files in the file set are the members of that
       set.

       File sets have names specific to the type  and  generation  epoch.  The
       names are constructed from three concatenated elements prefix, filename
       and suffix:

       prefix  The directory path specified in the statsdir command.

       name    The name specified by the file option of the filegen command.

       suffix  A string of elements bdginning with . (dot) followed by a  num‐
	       ber of elements depending on the file set type.

       Statistics files can be managed using scripts, examples of which are in
       the ./scripts directory. Using these or similar scripts and  Unix  cron
       jobs, the files can be automatically summarized and archived for retro‐
       spective analysis.

MONITORING COMMANDS
       filegen name file filename [type type] [link | nolink] [enable  |  dis‐
       able]

	       name    Specifies  the  file set type from the list in the next
		       section.

	       file filename
		       Specfies the file set name.

	       type typename
		       Specifies the file set interval. The  following	inter‐
		       vals are supported with default day:

		       none    The file set is actually a single plain file.

		       pid     One file set member is created for every incar‐
			       nation of ntpd. The file	 name  suffix  is  the
			       string  .n,  where  n  is the process ID of the
			       ntpd server process.

		       day     One file set member is created per day.	A  day
			       is  defined  as	the  period  between 00:00 and
			       23:59 UTC. The file name suffix is  the	string
			       .yyyymmdd, where yyyy is the year, mm the month
			       of the year and dd the day of the month.	 Thus,
			       member  created	on 10 December 1992 would have
			       suffix .19921210.

		       week    One file set member is created  per  week.  The
			       week  is	 defined  as the day of year modulo 7.
			       The file name suffix is	the  string  .yyyyWww,
			       where yyyy is the year, W stands for itself and
			       ww the week number starting from 0.  For	 exam‐
			       ple,  The  member  created  on  10 January 1992
			       would have suffix .1992W1.

		       month   One file set member is created per  month.  The
			       file  name  suffix is the string .yyyymm, where
			       yyyy is the year and mm the month of  the  year
			       starting	 from  1. For example, The member cre‐
			       ated on	10  January  1992  would  have	suffix
			       .199201.

		       year    One  file set member is generated per year. The
			       file name suffix is  the	 string	 .yyyy,	 where
			       yyyy  is the year. For example, The member cre‐
			       ated on 1 January 1992 would have suffix .1992.

		       age     One file set member is generated every 24 hours
			       of  ntpd	 operation. The filename suffix is the
			       string .adddddddd, where a  stands  for	itself
			       and  dddddddd  is the ntpd running time in sec‐
			       onds at the start of the corresponding  24-hour
			       period.

	       link | nolink
		       It  is convenient to be able to access the current file
		       set members by file name, but without the suffix.  This
		       feature	is  enabled by link and disabled by nolink. If
		       enabled, which is the default, a	 hard  link  from  the
		       current	file  set  member  to a file without suffix is
		       created. When there is already a file  with  this  name
		       and  the	 number	 of  links  to this file is one, it is
		       renamed by appending a dot, the letter C, and  the  pid
		       of the ntpd server process. When the number of links is
		       greater than one, the file is unlinked. This allows the
		       current file to be accessed by a constant name.

	       enable | disable
		       Enable  or disable the recording function, with default
		       enable. These options  are  intended  for  remote  con‐
		       figutation commands.

       statsdir directory_path
	       Specify the directory path prefix for statistics file names.

FILE SET TYPES
       clockstats
	       Record  reference clock statistics. Each update received from a
	       reference clock driver appends one line to the clockstats  file
	       set: 49213 525.624 127.127.4.1 93 226 00:08:29.606 D

	       ┌─────────────────┬──────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
	       │ Item		 │    Units	│   Description		      │
	       ├─────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 49213		 │    MJD	│   date		      │
	       ├─────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 525.624	 │    s		│   time past midnight	      │
	       ├─────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 127.127.4.1	 │    IP	│   reference clock address   │
	       ├─────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
	       │ message	 │    text	│   log message		      │
	       └─────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
	       The  message  field  includes  the  last	 timecode  received in
	       decoded ASCII format, where meaningful. In some	cases  a  good
	       deal  of	 additional  information is displayed. See information
	       specific to each reference clock for further details.

       cryptostats
	       Record significant events in the Autokey protocol. This	option
	       requires the OpenSSL cryptographic software library. Each event
	       appends one line to the cryptostats  file  set:	49213  525.624
	       128.4.1.1 message

	       ┌────────────┬──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐
	       │Item	    │  Units   │  Description			      │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │49213	    │  MJD     │  date				      │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │525.624	    │  s       │  time past midnight		      │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │128.4.1.1   │  IP      │  source address (0.0.0.0 for system) │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │message	    │  text    │  log message			      │
	       └────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘
	       The  message field includes the message type and certain ancil‐
	       lary information. See the Authentication Options page for  fur‐
	       ther information.

       loopstats
	       Record  clock  discipline  loop	statistics.  Each system clock
	       update appends one  line	 to  the  loopstats  file  set:	 50935
	       75440.031 0.000006019 13.778 0.000351733 0.013380 6

	       ┌─────────────┬──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
	       │Item	     │ Units	│ Description			      │
	       ├─────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │50935	     │ MJD	│ date				      │
	       ├─────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │75440.031    │ s	│ time past midnight		      │
	       ├─────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │0.000006019  │ s	│ clock offset			      │
	       ├─────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │13.778	     │ PPM	│ frequency offset		      │
	       ├─────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │0.000351733  │ s	│ RMS jitter			      │
	       ├─────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │0.013380     │ PPM	│ RMS frequency jitter (aka wander)   │
	       ├─────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │6	     │ log2 s	│ clock discipline loop time constant │
	       └─────────────┴──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

       peerstats
	       Record  peer  statistics.  Each	NTP  packet or reference clock
	       update received appends one line to  the	 peerstats  file  set:
	       48773   10847.650  127.127.4.1  9714  -0.001605376  0.000000000
	       0.001424877 0.000958674

	       ┌───────────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
	       │  Item		   │	 Units	   │	 Description	      │
	       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
	       │  48773		   │	 MJD	   │	 date		      │
	       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
	       │  10847.650	   │	 s	   │	 time past midnight   │
	       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
	       │  127.127.4.1	   │	 IP	   │	 source address	      │
	       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
	       │  9714		   │	 hex	   │	 status word	      │
	       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
	       │  -0.001605376	   │	 s	   │	 clock offset	      │
	       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
	       │  0.000000000	   │	 s	   │	 roundtrip delay      │
	       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
	       │  0.001424877	   │	 s	   │	 dispersion	      │
	       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
	       │  0.000958674	   │	 s	   │	 RMS jitter	      │
	       └───────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
	       The status field is encoded in hex format as described  in  Ap‐
	       pendix B of the NTP specification RFC 1305.

       protostats
	       Record  significant peer, system and [rptpcp; events. Each sig‐
	       nificant event appends one line to  the	protostats  file  set:
	       49213 525.624 128.4.1.1 963a 8a message

	       ┌────────────┬──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐
	       │Item	    │  Units   │  Description			      │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │49213	    │  MJD     │  date				      │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │525.624	    │  s       │  time past midnight		      │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │128.4.1.1   │  IP      │  source address (0.0.0.0 for system) │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │963a	    │  code    │  status word			      │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │8a	    │  code    │  event message code		      │
	       ├────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │message	    │  text    │  event message			      │
	       └────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘
	       The  event  message code and message field are described on the
	       Event Messages and Status Words page.

       rawstats
	       Record timestamp statistics. Each NTP packet  received  appends
	       one  line  to  the  rawstats file set: 50928 2132.543 128.4.1.1
	       128.4.1.20     3102453281.584327000	3102453281.58622800031
	       02453332.540806000 3102453332.541458000

	       ┌─────────────────────────┬──────────┬─────────────────────────┐
	       │Item			 │  Units   │  Description	      │
	       ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
	       │50928			 │  MJD	    │  date		      │
	       ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
	       │2132.543		 │  s	    │  time past midnight     │
	       ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
	       │128.4.1.1		 │  IP	    │  source address	      │
	       ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
	       │128.4.1.20		 │  IP	    │  destination address    │
	       ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
	       │3102453281.584327000	 │  NTP s   │  origin timestamp	      │
	       ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
	       │3102453281.586228000	 │  NTP s   │  receive timestamp      │
	       ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
	       │3102453332.540806000	 │  NTP s   │  transmit timestamp     │
	       ├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
	       │3102453332.541458000	 │  NTP s   │  destination timestamp  │
	       └─────────────────────────┴──────────┴─────────────────────────┘

       sysstats
	       Record system statistics. Each hour one line is appended to the
	       sysstats file set in the following format: 50928 2132.543  3600
	       81965 0 9546 56 512 540 10 4 147 1

	       ┌──────────────┬──────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
	       │ Item	      │	   Units     │	 Description		      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 50928	      │	   MJD	     │	 date			      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 2132.543     │	   s	     │	 time past midnight	      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 3600	      │	   s	     │	 time since reset	      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 81965	      │	   #	     │	 packets received	      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 0	      │	   #	     │	 packets for this host	      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 9546	      │	   #	     │	 current versions	      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 56	      │	   #	     │	 old version		      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 512	      │	   #	     │	 access denied		      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 540	      │	   #	     │	 bad length or format	      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 10	      │	   #	     │	 bad authentication	      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 4	      │	   #	     │	 declined		      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 147	      │	   #	     │	 rate exceeded		      │
	       ├──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
	       │ 1	      │	   #	     │	 kiss-o'-death packets sent   │
	       └──────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

       timingstats
	       (Only  available	 when the deamon is compiled with process time
	       debugging support (--enable-debug-timing - costs	 performance).
	       Record  processing  time	 statistics  for various selected code
	       paths.  53876 36.920 10.0.3.5 1	0.000014592  input  processing
	       delay

	       ┌──────────────┬─────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
	       │Item	      │ Units	│  Description			      │
	       ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │53876	      │ MJD	│  date				      │
	       ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │36.920	      │ s	│  time past midnight		      │
	       ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │10.0.3.5      │ IP	│  server address		      │
	       ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │1	      │ #	│  event count			      │
	       ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │0.000014592   │ s	│  total time			      │
	       ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
	       │message	      │ text	│  code path description (see source) │
	       └──────────────┴─────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       ntp.conf(5), ntp_decode(5)

       The official HTML documentation.

       This file was automatically generated from HTML source.

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