[mrtg] Advice: monitoring GPS based clock

[Daniel McDonald]

On 9/2/11 12:34 PM, "Alex van den Bogaerdt" <alex at vandenbogaerdt.nl> wrote:

>> We have some ntp clocks that provide snmp monitoring.  Unfortunately, the
>> data presented is not structured nicely in a mib:
>> 
>> SYMM-SMI::gpsSatlist.0
>> "9,3,-156,C,6,-158,C,7,-154,C,8,-161,C,10,-159,C,11,-156,C,16,-159,C,19,-152
>> ,C,23,-153,C"
>> [...time passes]
>> 
>> SYMM-SMI::gpsSatlist.0
>> "8,3,-158,C,6,-160,C,7,-153,C,8,-159,C,10,-158,C,11,-157,C,19,-153,C,23,-152
>> ,C"
>> 
>> The format of the string is:
>> N, x1,y1,z1,x2,y2,z2...xn,yn,zn
>> Where N is the number of currently visible satellites , the x,y,z are
>> specific information about each satellite.  X is a unique number
>> associated
>> with the satellite, Y is the dB loss talking to it, and Z is a flag
>> indicating whether the time protocol considers the satellite or is just
>> tracking it for later.
> [...]
>> However, I don¹t know what the possible X values are, so pre-loading that
>> seems challenging.  I think adding targets on the fly in mrtg (by adding
>> them to the $$targ array) would be a tad challenging.
> 
> Guessing only: 1 to 32

I think that is correct...  That doesn't seem onerous to have 32 targets per
clock.  Shouldn't be a difficult perl script to write...


> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GPS_satellite_launches#Cross_reference_of
> _PRNs_to_satellite_blocks
> 
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