Cisco CSS 11503 ntp keepalive script

[noel-fitzgerald]

Have setup a new Owner/Service/Group for loadbalancing NTP traffic to 2 NTP servers. It all appears to work fine apart from failure of one of the servers NTP service. I've currently set up a simple ping keepalive which works fine if one of the servers fail but this keepalive won't detect if the servers NTP service fails. I'm running 8.20 code. My question is has anybody created a working keepalive script for NTP traffic  for the CSS?

[Daniel Arrondo Ostiz]

Hi Noel,

The "ap-kal-time" script that comes with the CSS is designed to probe NTP servers, so, you should be able to use that one.

Regards

Daniel

[noel-fitzgerald]

Hi Daniel,

I had looked at that script but it doesn't suit my needs. The script uses TCP port 37 for its keepalives whereas our  NTP servers use UDP port 123.

Regards

Noel