Various Time Scripts
To see the offset for a range of system
for X in `cat YourList.txt` do Y=`ssh $X -l root 'ntpdate -q 10.168.XX.XX' | awk -F, '{print $3}'` echo $X $Y done
Your output
HOST1 offset 0.007304 HOST2 offset 0.044396 HOST3 offset 0.038323 HOST4 offset 274.636170 HOST5 offset 189.366374
To see how far your servers are from the NTP source
for X in `cat YourList.txt` do Y=`ssh $X -l root 'ntpdc -c loopinfo' | grep offset` echo $X $Y done
Output
HOST1 offset: 0.009959 s HOST2 offset: 0.042295 s HOST3 offset: 0.038320 s HOST4 offset: 0.000000 s HOST5 offset: 0.000000 s
0.000000 s means you haven’t picked up an authoritative time source yet.
